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XHatrict  of  Maine ,~*tb  wit. 

■  BE  IT  REMEMBERED,  that  on  the  thir- 
L.  S.  teenth  day  of  January,  A*  D.  1818,  in  the 
forty-second  year  of  the  independence  of  the 
tJnited  States  of  America,  Abraham  Maxim,  of  the 
aaifl  District,  hath  deposited  in  this  office  the  title  of 
a  book,  the  right  whereof  he  claims  as  proprietor,  in 
the  words  following- ; — viz. 

"  The  Gospel  Hyxts-Book  :  being  a  selection  of 
Hymns,  composed  by  different  authors.  Designed  for 
the  use  of  the  Church  Universal ;  and  adapted  to 
public  and  private  devotion." 

In  conformity  to  the  act  of  the  Congress  of  the 
United  "States,  entitled  "An  Act  for  the  encourage* 
ment  of  learning,  by  securing  the  copies  of  maps, 
charts  and  books  to  the  authors  and  proprietors  of 
such  copies,  during  the  times  therein  mentioned." 
And  also  "  to  an  Act  supplementary  to  an  Act  en- 
titled an  Act  for  the  encouragement  of  learning,  by 
securing  the  copies\>f  maps,  charts,  and  books  to  the 
authors  and  proprietors  of  such  copies,  during  the 
times  therein  mentioned,  and  extending  the  benefit 
thereof  to  the  arts  of  designing,  engraving,  and  etch- 
ing historical  and  other  prints/' 

HENRY  SEWALL,  Clerk,  Bist.  Court,  Maine 

A.  true  Copy  of  Record, 

Attest,  H.  SEWALL,  Clerff, 


PREFACE. 

The  design  of  this  Hymn-Rook* 
the  contents  of  which  ate  original  and 
selected,  is  two-fold  ; — 

i.  To  exhibit  the  Doctrine  of  the 
final  Triumph  of  our  Redeemer  over 
the  devil  and  his  works  ;  and  to  offer; 
from  scripture  and  reason,  satisfactory 
'grounds  for  hope  and  faith  in  the  final 
RESTORATION  of  all  mankind  to 
holiness  and  happiness  in  a  future 
state,  through  the  mediation  of  the 
Man  Christ  Jesus,  who  was  deliv- 
ered for  our  offences,  and  raised  for 
pur  justification ;    and  through  whose 

GOSPEL,      LIFE    and    IMMORTALITY    ard 

brought  to  Light. 

&  To  furnish  the  Church  Universal 
with  a  variety  of  Hymns,  breathing 
ill  at  spirit  of  Universal  Love  and  Be 
nevolence  which  is  the  effusion  of 
hope  and  faith  in  the  Gospel  of  the 
Grace  of  God,  that  hath  appeared  unto 
a.  part  of  mankind  5    and  will,  in  the 


XY  PREFACE.- 

Dispensation  of  the  Fulness  of  Times, 
bring  salvation  unto  all  tKe  human 
race  without  one  solitary  exception. 

That  this  hunible  attempt  to  contri- 
bute a  mite  towards  inculcating  the 
doctrine,  which  alone  opens  to  dying 
man,  on  scriptural  and  rational 
principles,  the  sure  prospect  of  Life 
and  Immortality,  may,  in  some  measure 
answer  so  desirable  an  object ;  is  the 
desire  of  the  Author  of  this  selection. 

N.  B.  Subscribers  are  respectfully 
thanked  for  the  patronage  which  they 
liave  given  this  work. 


&OSPEL  HYMNS. 


HYMN  I.    H.  M. 

On  the  existence  of  God. — Rom.  i>  £0 

i      A    LL.  Nature  owns  her  Got] 
jLjl  Of  wisdom,  pow'rand  skillj 
And  speaks  his  praise  abroad. 
And  does  his  holy  will  : 
Jehovah,  all  creation's  Cause, 
The  author  is  of  nature's  laws. 

2.  V.y  pow'r  and  skill  he  made 
The  heav'ns,  the  sea  and  earth  ; 
And  all  by  him  is  sway'd 
To  which  his  pow'r  gave  birth  ; 
He  governs  all  upon  the  plan 
Which  wisdom  had  ere  time  began. 

3  He  nothing  made  in  vain ; 
Nor  aught  in  vain  preserves  j 
Each  thing  in  his  domain, 
Its  destin'd  purpose  serves  ; 

His  pow'r,  his  skill  and  wisdom  $oin*d, 
With  ease  fulfil  his  righteous  mind. 

4  Then  let  us  keep  in  view 
This  great  uncaus'd  I  AM; 

A  2 


HYMNS, 

Whose  goodness  vast  and  true, 
Embraces  ev'ry  man  ; 
Now  praise  be  paid  the  Cause  and  King 
Who  made  and  governs  ev'ry  thing. 


HYMN  II.    C.  M. 

The  testimony  of 'reason  in  favor  of  the  exist- 
ence of  God. 

1  HHHE  Cause  of  all  can  have  no  cause  ;— 

«      God  of  himself  exists  ; 
And  governs  by  perfection's  laws, 
AH  products  as  he  lists. 

2  When  reason  back  to  nature's  source 
Is  borne  on  fancy's  wing, 

She  quick  returns  from  want  of  force 
To  scan  of  all  the  Spring. 

3  Tho*  none  can  comprehend  the  Cause 
From  which  Creation  came  -t 

Nor  understand  the  hidden  laws, 
By  which  he  rules  the  same  ; 

4  Yet  men  by  reason's  aid  do  see 
Of  one  Jirst  Cause  the  need  ; 

And  feel  convine'd  such  Cause  must  be.,. 
Whence  products  all  proceed. 

5  Thus  wre  believe  Creation  came. 
From  God's  almighty  hand; 
And  Revelation  proves  it  plain 
^ocy'ry  favor-d  ]?m£ 


HYMNS.. 


^  HYMN  III.,  C.     M. 

The  unreasonableness  of  denying  God's  ep: 


1  /">  OME,  ath'ist  own  the  world  was  made, 
V_y   And  cease  to  be  a  fool  ; 

If  to  the  whole  there  be  no  head, 
What  does  the  system  rule  ? 

2  His  declaration  must  be  sham. 
Who   says  it  has  no  cause, 
Merely  because  he  cannot  scan 
Its  author  and  its  iaws. 

3  That  man  must  have  an  ign'rant  souK 
In  spite  of  all  his  claims, 

Who  thinks  a  part  includes  the  whole. 
That  all  the  parts  contains. 

4  As  weak  the  ath'ist  we  may  caii. 
Who  form'd  by  heav'nly  art, 
Denies  the  Great  First  Cause  of  all. 
And  so  of  ev'ry  part. 

5  If  nature's  system  has  no  Cause* 
As  ath'iats  all  declare; 

She  is  not  subject  then  to  laws, 
Nor  has  an  agent's  care. 

6  Then  Ath'ist  own  the  Great  First  Causp 
Who  form'd  this  world  at  list; 

Or  ctase  to  speak  of  Nature's  laws, 
As  then  no  laws  exist. 


H  HYMNS. 

HYMN  IV.    C.  M.  * 

(> 
Nature's  rJorks  declare  the  existence  cfGoa\ 

1  r  I  TIIIS  rolling  earth  on  which  we  live, 

X     Proceeding;  from  a  cause, 
Does  proof  of  God's  existence  give, 
And  keeps  his  given  laws. 

2  The  wheels  of  nature  keeping  time, 
Which  whirl  without  a  pause, 
Show  order  flowing  from  design, 
And  prove  the  Great  First  Cause. 

3  The  stars  and  planets  he  has  form'd. 
To  keep  their  place  or  move, 

By  which  the  firmament's  adorn'd, 
His  pow'r  and  wisdom  prove. 

4  The  station'd  sun,  that  globe  of  fire* 
Round  which  our  planet  goes, 

Gives  light  and  heat  which  we  admire, 
And  God's  existence  shows. 

5  The  changeful  moon  whose  silver  fays 
Are  borrow'd  from  the  sun's, 
Declares  God's  being  and  his  praise, 
As  'round  the  earth  she  runs. 

6  The  waters  of  the  ocean  wide, 
By  turns  which  ebb  and  flow, 
Proclaim  their  Maker  and  their  Guide, 
As  back  and  forth  they  go.  i 

f  The  lofty  winds  which  sometimes  sweep 
Huge  farests  to  the  ground, 


HYMNS.  y 

And  move  the  bowels  of  the  deeg; 
Proclaim  him  in  the  sound. 

3  Him  the  successive  seasons  show, 
As  they  in  order  roll  ; 
While  night  and  day  alternate  flow 
Beneath  his  wise  controul. 

9  Before  this  potentate  of  Heav'n, 
In  adoration  falls 

Whose  works  to  man  full  proof  have  giv'o* 
That  he  is  Lore!  of  All. 


HYMN  V.     L.  M.  * 

God  :Va  p.ure  sfi}rii\  having  neither  parts  fiot 
passions. 

L  jT^  OD  is  a  spirit  just  and  pure, 
VJ  And  no  division  can  endure  ;  — 
From  composition  being  free, 
In  him  no  adverse  traits  can  be. 

2  God  then  whom  great  first  Cause  we  dallf 
No  parts  or  passions  has  at  all  > 

This  source  of  all  diversity 
Is,  from  his  nature,  unity. 

3  God  does  not  act  by  parts,  of  course,. 
In  any  thing-  his  pow'r    brings  forth  j 
His  vast  transactions  then  must  be 
Productions  pure  of  unity. 

4  His  attributes  of  different  name, 
Are  in  their  nature  all  the  same, 

w 


10  HYMNS. 

And  are  but  universal  love, 
For  all  below  and  all  above. 

5  Tho*  much  in  man  we  think  we  find 
Repugnant  to  Jehovah's  mind  ; 
Yet  if  like  his  were  pure  our  sight, 
His  work  in  us  would  all  look  right. 


HYMN  VI.    C  M.  * 

The  Immensity  of  Jehovatis  works,  a  cause  of 
astonishment  to  the  mind,  and  of  humiliation 
to  the  firide  of  man. 

1  TTOW  boundless  seem  Jehovah's  works, 
XI  Afloat  in  liquid  air ; 

What  povv'r  and  wisdom  he  exerts 
In  their  support  and  care  ! 

2  How  wond'rous  is  the  secret  hand 
Which  makes  the  planets  wheel, 
While  creatures  that  upon  them  stand, 
Their  motion  cannot  feel. 

£  Thi6  vast  machin'ry  far  exceeds 
Imagination's  pow'r  ; 
Jf  she  a  million  miles  proceeds. 
She  but  begins  the  tour. 

4  The  stars  whose  beams  forbear  to  fio\v: 
When  Sol  his  face  displays, 
T'  unmeasurable  ether  owe 
Their  small  and  feeble  ravs 


HYMNS.  ll 

$  Millions  of  years  should  fancy  fly 
To  walk  creation's  round  ; 
She  would  not  then  its  suburb  spy, 
Because  it  has  no  bound. 

6  My  finite  soul,  take  up  the  cross, 
And  all  thy  pride  resign  ; 
To  God  thy  thou  ghts^ad  miring  toss, 
Whose  works  are  vast  and  fine. 

'7  Lord,  hear  my  humble  spirit's  pray'r 
Which  up  to  thee  I  send — 
My  soul  from  woe  and  ruin  spare 
When  mortal  life  shall  end. 


HYMN    VII.  L.    M.  • 

Ml  things  created  and  governed  according  to 
God's  decrees.  Is  a.  XLVI.  10.  Rom. 
XIII.  L 

1  /"I  OD  forms  and  governs  by  decrees 
\J}T  All  things  in  heav'nand  earth  and  seas  ; 
And  by  his  wisdom,  pow'r  and  skill, 

In  ev'ry  case  performs  his  will. 

2  From  the  beginning  to  the  end, 

He  to  his  will  all  things  doth  bend  ; 
And  as  he  plans,  beyond  a  doubt. 
All  things  must  certainly  turn  out 

3  If  this  Jehovah  did  not  do, 

Him  infinite,  we  could  not  view  ; 
As  then  his  wisdom,  pow'r  and  skill. 
Might  tail  to  do  his  holy  will. 


ifi  HYMNS. 

4  All  pou'r  and  wisdom  dwell  in  Kim 
Who  is  creation's  Cause  and  King  ;( 
Of  course,  his  creatures'  pow'rand  skift 
Are  lent  to  them  to  do  his  will. 

6  As  all's  decreed  by  Deity, 

With  him  there's  no  contingency'; 
Events  of  ev'ry  kind  and  size, 
From  his  decrees  as  products  rise. 

6  Tho'  things  occur  from  day  to  day, 
As  second  causes  lead  the  way  ; 
These  and  their   products,  great  or  smalU 
FiOW  from  the  Great  First  Cause  of  all. 


HYMN  VIII.  L.  M.  * 

God  the  Author  of  nature* 

I    /~1   OD  is  the  Cause  of  ev'ry  thing  ; 
vJT  From  him,  of  course,  their  natures 

springy 
Him  not  their  Author  to  confess, 
Is  atheism  to  possess. 

2  If  nature  underivd  has  man^ 
From  God  supreme  he  never  sprang  ; 
And  if  uncaus'd  his  nature  reigns, 
With  God's  it  co-existence  claims.- 

S  In  reas'ning  on  the  human  kind, 
Men  ^rop  ideas  oft,  we  find, 
Which  paint  their  natures  not  to  be 
The  product  of  the  Deity. 


HYMNS.  13 

4  If  human  nature  and  its  laws 

Came  not  from  God,  they  have  no  cause  ; 

If  so,  they  equal  honors  claim 

With  God  who  all  things  else  did  frame, 

5  Some  men  whose  thoughts  at  randsnr 

prance, 
Spin  sophistries,  and  them  advance 
To  prove  that  man,  ere  actual  life, 
Existence  had  with  God  at  strife. 

6  No  period  past  their  fancies  see, 
When  man  was  what  he  ought  to  be  ; 
Him  caus'd  and  unc&usW  both  they  view, 
With  whom  God  scarce  knew  what  to  do 

V  From  one  First  Cause  men  nature  take. 
Or  else  themselves  their  natures  make  J 
They  not  from  seco?id  causes  spring, 
As  seco.nd  ones  create  no  thing. 

8  Since  ev'rj  thing  ?s  by  God  decreed^ 
And  all  the  means  to  ends  which  lead  , 
All  things  and  natures  are,  of  course, 
Made  and  directed  by  his  force. 

f  Cease;,  then  ye  christian,  to  profess, 
That  uncaus'd  nature  men  possess  ; 
If  thus  you  thought,  think  so  no  more. 
But  God  as  Cause  of  all  adore, 


HYMN    IX.   L.  M,  * 
j&rofihecy  and  insfiirstion* 


ih  i-mjss. 

1  jT^WAS  by  an  order  from  the  Lord, 

JL     The    ancient    prophets    spoke    his 
word ; 
His  Spirit  did  their  tongues  inspire, 
And  warm'd  their  hgarts  with  heav'niy  fire. 

2  The  works  and  wonders  which  they  wrost3 
Confirm'd  the  messages  they  brought  ; 
The  prophet's  pen  succeeds  his  breath, 
To  save  the  holy  words  from  death. 

8  Great  God  !  my  eyes  with  pleasure  look 
On  the  dear  volume  of  thy  book  ; 
There  my  Redeemer's  face  I  see, 
And  read  his  name  who  dy'd  for  me. 

4  Let  the  false  raptures  of  the  mind 
Be  lost  and  vanish  in  the  wind  : 
Here  lean  fix  my  hope  secure  ; 
This  is  thy  word  and  must  endure., 


HYMN  X.  L.  M,  * 

Picture  of  Hopkintonianism  ;  or ;  the   maimts 
of  uniting  Calvinism  and  Arminianism. 

SOME  men  who  held  that  God's  decree? 
Sway  moral  agents  as  he  please  ; 
Consider  men  as  agents  free, 
Altho'  in  bonds  thro'  his  decree. 

2  Oft  this  has  fallen  from  their  tongue  ; 
Foreknowledge  and  decree  are  one 
Yet  these  apart  they  take  by    rules, 
To.mtke  God  just  in  damning  tools. 


■  l  Whene'er  it  suits  the  theme  in  hand, 

Qn, Calvin's  ground  they're  seen  to  stand; 
But  when  success  needs  change  of  ground. 
On  Luther's  they  of  course  are  found. 

i  When  they  God's  pow'r  and  wisdom  great 
By  facts  and  reas'ning  vindicate; 
On  God's  decrees  they  touch  with  skill, 
Afcd  prove  with  man  he  doth  His  will. 

5  But  when  men's  sin  and  guilt  they  swell* 
To  make  them  merit  endless  hell ; 
They  prove  mankind  to  act  and  be 
What  God  nor  will'd  nor  did  decree. 

pause. 

6  As  God  has  ev'ry  thing  decreed 
With  all  the  means  to  ends  that  lead ; 
If  any  then  go  not  to  heav'n, 

By  God's  decree  to  woe  they're  driv'n. 

7  If  any  soul  is  doom'd  to  woe, 

His  doom  compels  him  there  to  go  ; 
If  not,  there  can  exist  no  need 
Of  going  to  the  place  decreed. 

8  If  some  are  form'd  for  endless  woe, 
Td  heav'n  they  have  np  chance  to  go  ^ 
If  any  then  descend  to  pain, 

He  merits  pity  more  than  blame. 

9  Hut  thanks  to  God,  who  formM  our  race 
To  make  them  all  the  heirs  of  grace  ; 
And  for  this  purpose  sent  his  son, 
Who  di'd  and  rose  for  ev'ry  one. 


16  HYMNS. 

10  Siifce  Jesus  came  and  <!i\l  for  ait, 
Who  ruurd  were  by  Adam's  iaUi   a 
All  tor  his  sake  will  be  ibrgiv'n, 
And  in  due  time  arrive  at  heav'n. 


HYMN  XI.     L,  M.  * 

God's  decrees  and  foreknowledge  ont% 
in  effect. 

\      A    S  God  does  every  thing  decree, 
JTjL   As  well  as  all  events  foresee.; 
There    can    exist  but    little    odds 
Between  these  attributes  of  God's. 

fi  'Tis  God's  decrees  which  tertiin  make 
Events  and  things  "which  place  do  take  ^ 
For  God  as  certain  nought  foresees, 
'Till  certain  made  by  his  decrees. 

3  As  nought  is  certain  in  his  view, 
But  what  he  is  resolved  to  do  : 
There  can  with  God  no  foresight  be 
Of  certitude^  but  by  decree. 

4  Thus  God's  decree  and  foresight  wise, 
As  Unity  do  harmonize  $ 

In  vain,  of  course,  shall  humaft  art 
Assay  this  unity  to  part. 

5  If  God  doth  all  events  foresee, 
Men  may  as  well  then  engines  be, 
As  f  he  did  (as  is  the  case) 
Decree  whatever  here  takes  place. 


HYMNS.  17 

HYMN  XII.    L.  M.  * 

Tke  same  subject  with  a  little  variation.* 

1  1   TOW  many  men  on  earth  there  be 
JTjL  Who  think  that  they  are  agents  freCj 
Possessing  given  pow'r  and  skill 

To  act  against  their  Maker's  will. 

2  Believirig  they  are  unconfin'd, 
Tk?o'  independent  pow'rs  of  mind, 
They  think  their  Maker,  just  like  them> 
Is  vext,  by  turns,  and  pleas'd  with  men. 

3  They  will  allow  God  knew  in  fact, 
What  they  would  choose   and  what   they'd 

act  ; 
Yet  they  deny,  they're  bound  to  do, 
The  things  which  God  himself  foreknew, 

4  If  God's  foreknowledge  of  their  lot 
To  choose  and  do  it  binds  them  not ; 
They  may,  if  freedom's  pow'rs  they  own, 
Rcfaiseto  do  the  things  foreknown. 

5  If  tfoey  have  pow'r  to  leave  undone, 
What  God  foreknew  to  pass  would  come  , 
God  gives  them  pow'r  whose  use  maysliow, 
That  He  their  actions  don't  foreknow. 

6  As  men  can  nothing  choose  or  do, 
But  what  their  Maker  God  foreknew  j 
So  what's  foreknown  they  must  fulfil, 
Because  it  is  His  holy  will. 

7  If  mortals  are  not  bound  to  do 

The  things  thev  act  as  God  foreknew  ; 
B  2 


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HYMNi 


Tho'  they  no  other  can  fnlrii, 

Then  they  from  choke  perform  his  win*. 

8  As  God  beholds  thro'  wisdom's  glass 
Ail  things  before  r.hey  come  to  pass  j 
lie  lends  his  creatures  pow'r  And  skin. 
But  just  to  do  His  holy  will. 

*>  Thus  men,  whatever  they  possess, 
Nor  choose  nor  do  or  more  or  less 
Than  He  design'd  on  wisdom's  plan, 
'Tho  made,  upholds  ?,?A  governs  man. 

HYMN  XIII.     C.  M.  * 

■,irr>ir?:ia:}h?):  inconsistent  ivith  the  id.-an  of  m 
finite  wisdom^  Jiotver,  &c.  and  places  mai 
above'  God. 

MUCH  has  been  said  to  prove  that  ma 
Is  free  to  act  and  will  j 
Whence  he  himself  may  save  or  damn 
By  given  pow'r  and  skill. 

3L  ]{'  God  a  purpose  ?.as  in  view 
JJy  human  agency  ; 
And  man  that  purpose  will  not  do, 
The  age&t  then  is  free. 

2  If  God  no  purpose  has  in  view 
By  human  agency  ; 
Nothing  is  put  to  him  to  dor  . 

And  he,  of  course,  is  free. 

4  If  God  a  purpose  has  ii>  view  ^ 

By  human  agency  ; 


HVUNS-.  1$ 

Anu*  man  that  purpose  fails  to  do, 
He  foils  the  Deity. 

5  If  God  no  purpose  has  in  view- 
By  human  agency  ; 

And  he  a  purpose  still  should  do> 
He'd  foil  the  Deity. 

6  If  disappointed  is  the  Lord 
By  human  agency  ; 

Of  pow*r  and  wisdom  he  is  void* 
And  ceases  God  to  be. 

8  Unhappy  King  whose  subjects  foil 
The  purpose  of  his  will, 
In  opposition  to  the  toil 
Of  boundless  pow'r  and  skill  V 


I1YMX  XIV.     t.  >L 

.VI  dijferezice  between  needful  choice  and  ncccl 
of  choice. 

1  \  S  God  on  earth  has  plac'd  mankind* 
Jr\  He  has  to  each  his  part  assign'd  ; 
'Tis  necessary  then,  in  fact, 

That  each  his  given  part  should  act. 

2  As  men,  whatever  their  pow'r  and  skill, 
Can  nothing  do  without  the  will  ; 
Voiition  is  as  needful,  then, 

As  that  on  earth  there  should  be  men, 

S  This  then  appears  to  be  the  fart  : 
We're  bound  alike  to  chaos?  and  act ; 


20  ^HYMNST. 

As  to  our  bodies  and  our  minds 
Their  parts  respective  God  assigns. 

4  As  there  is  need  that  all  mankind 
Should  act  horn  choice,  the  part  aseign'd  j 
For  every  choice  there  must  be  need, 
And  choice  must  needful  be  indeed. 

5  If  this  conclusion  be  not  true, 

That  men  are  forc'd  to  choose  and  do— • 
Define  the  odds,  some  man  of  skill, 
'Twixt  needful  choice  and  need  of  wilf. 

6  If  every  man  did  choose  to  choose, 
For  ev'ry  overt  act  he  does  ; 

Two  needful  choices  wo&ld  precede 
Each  act  which  he  performs  from  need. 

7  We  choose  because  we  can't  refuse  ; 
Refuse,  because  we  cannot  choose ; 
As^lead  the  objects  heav'n  designed 
To  be  the  actors  on  the  mind. 

£  We  cannot  then  refuse  to  choose  ; 
Nor  choose    to  choose,  nor  to  refuse  : 
For  motives,  which  the  will  control, 
To  do  her  part  compel  the  soul. 

9  There's  then  no  odds,  O  man  of  skill, 
'Twixt  need  of  choice  and  needjul  will  j 
And  as  there's  none — none  can  be  seen. 
Freedom  of  will  is  then  a  dream. 


HYMNS.  21 

H¥MN  XV    L.  M.  * 

Real  or  imaginary  {food  the  only  object  of 
choice  ;  or,  "  7 he  mind  always  is  as  the 
greater  good  is  under  present  circumstan- 
ces." 

1  4    Sis  the  greater  good,  \ve  find, 
JTjl   So  is,  in  every  case,  the  mind  ; 
Men  then  on  purpose  cannot  choose 
The  evil,  nor  the  good  refuse. 

2  The  love  of  good  and  hate  of  ill 
The  only  motives  are  to  will  ; 
This  to  avoid  and  that  t*  embrace 
Choice  and  refusal  both  take  place. 

3  When  we  the  evil  object  choose, 

The  choice  but  want  of  judgment  shews  j 
The  hate  of  good  and  love  of  ill, 
Are  names,  not  objects  of  the  will. 

4  The  choice  of  evil  thus  is  found 

To  rest  but  on  deception's  ground— 
The  evil  takes  of  good  the  hues, 
When  we  as  good  the  evil  choose. 


HYMN  XVI.     C.  M. 

•Abraham  offering  Isaac. — Gen.  xxii. 

1   TXT  HEN  Abrah'm  to  Moriah's  mount 
V  V      Was  cull'd  by  God  most  high; 
To  offer  to  salvation's  fount 
His  son  a  sacrifice. 


&&  HYMNS. 

2  The  Patriarch  without  delay. 
At  the  appointed  time, 
Attempted,  faithful,  to  obey 

•   The  mandate  all  divine. 

3  His  son  obedient,  kind  and  good, 
His  father's  age  to  spare, 
Thither  himself  convey*d  the  wood, 
Design'd  to  burn  him  there. 

4  Said  Isaac  to  his  much  lov'd  Sire, 
(Who  secret  kept  his  plan) 

We  here  have  wood,  a  knife  and  fire-^ 
But,  father,  where's  the  lamb  ? 

$  Then  Abrah'm  to  his  Son  reply'd, 
As  up  to  him  he  come, 
"  God  will  himself  a  lamb  provide/* 
And  seiz'd  and  bound  his  Son. 

6  Thus  preparation  being  made, 
The  father  seiz'd  the  knife, 
And  then  his  hands  on  Isaac  laid 
To  take  away  his  life. 

7  But  God  on  Isaac  mercy  had, 
From  heav'n  they  heard  the  sound— 
"  Abr -ah 'm,  forbear — slay  not  the  lad, 
For  thou  art  faithful  found.'* 

8  Abrah'm  look'd  'round  and  saw  a  ram, 
Caught  in  a  thicket  nigh  ; 

Which,  offer'd  to  the  Great  I  AM, 

Did  Isaac's  place  supply. 

9  Thus  faith  enough  in  him  wa'e  found 
His  only  so'n  to  kill  ; 


HYMNS,  £.3 

His  selfish  feelings  been  drown'd 
In  love  to  do  God's  will, 

10  What  strength  of  faith  in  flesh  aftd  Wood 
His  darling  not  to  spare  ! 

None  but  the  only  Son  of  God 
Can  faith  with  his  compare. 

1 1  From  faith  in  God,  and  love  to  man 
Descending  to  the  grave  ; 

Christ  died  and  rose  on  mercy's  plan3 
A  dying  world  to  save. 


HYMN  XVII.     L.  M.  * 

Man    created    according-  to  the  will  of  God ; 
andy  consequently,  as  he  ought  to  be, 

GOD  from  election  free  and  pure 
As  wisdom  infinite  design'd. 
Created  ev'ry  thing  be  sure, 
Together  with  the  human  kind. 

3  Had  he  been  forc'd  to  form  our  race 
With  pow'rs  to  act  against  his  will  j 
He  were  unhappy  in  that  case, 
And  limited  in  pow'r  and  skill. 

3  Possessing  wisdom  infinite, 

And  pow'r  his  pleasure  to  pursue, 
He  made  him  as  he  saw  most  fit 
His  will  and  purpose  here  to  do. 

4  Thus  being  under  no  control 
Thro'  his  prescience  and  decree^ 


Zh  HYMNS. 

Against  his  will  to  form  a  soul, 
He  made  man  as  he  ought  to  be. 

5  As  He  created  man  alone, 
According  to  his  will  and  plan. 
He  never  will  his  work  disown, 
Nor  man  from  need  or  option  damn. 

6  God  cannot  choose  nor  will  consent 
His  moral  creatures  to  destroy  ; 
Redempti6n's  plan  will  this  prevent. 
And  bring-  them  endless  life  and  joy. 


HYAftf  XVIII.     L.  M. 

4dam  became  a  moral  agent  by  the  fall. 


W11, 


~\  THY  should  we  think  that  Adam  was 
A  moral  agent  ere  he  fell  ? 
Or  knowledge  had  of  moral  laws, 
Ere  good  from  evil  he  could  tell  _> 

3  If  he  a  moral  agent  were, 
Ere  he  m  Eden  did  rebel- — 

He  knew  the  difference,  foul  ov  fair, 
'Twixt  good  and  evil  ere  he  fell. 

:>  If  such  he  were  before  the  fall, 
And  after  that,  'tis  very  strange  ; 
This  question  then  is  put  to  all- 
Did  Adam  his  condition  change  ? 

4  If  he  no  chanpe  did  undergo, 
Which  every  christian  mus;  dispute  j 


HVMXS.  W 

He  did  not  fall  from  bliss  to  woe, 
Nor  did  he  eat  forbidden  fruit. 

5  To  us  the  scriptures  clearly  state. 
That  Adam  did  the  knowledge  gaiu 
Of  good  and  evil  when  he  ate 
The  fruit  forbid  upon  death's  pain, 

6  Thus  he  no  moral  agent  was, 
'Till  he  partook  forbidden  fruit  ; 
But  ignorant  was  of  moral  laws-— 
A  truth  no  christian  should  dispute. 


HYMN  XIX.    L.   U. 

Of  the  law  of  God,  as  impracticable  by  majy, 

1  '"T^HE  moral  law  a  transcript  is 

i     Of  God  by  whom  we  breathe  and  live  ; 
Of  course,  'tis  holy,  just  and  pure, 
And  no  abatement  can  endure. 

2  Beneath  this  law  was  Adam's  place, 
As  head  of  all  the  human  race  ; 
He  by  transgression  of  the  same 
Fell  uncjer  moral  death  and  pain. 

3  The  great  Creator  ne'er  design'd, 
That  Adam  by  the  law  should  find 
That  perfect  bliss,  which  yet  conceal'd, 
Should  be    through    pard'ning    grace    re% 

veaPd. 

4  To  keep  the  law  that's  just  like  God, 
Surpass'd  the  pow'r  of  flush  and  b'.ojd  ; 

C 


SB  HYMNS, 

The  moral  law,  had  it  been  kept, 
Redemption's  plan  aside  had  set* 

«5  For  Jesus  Christ,  the  wise  aud  jus% 
Of  ev'ry  creature  born  the  first, 
Was  slain,  before  the  world  began, 
For  the  redemption  of  fell  man. 

6  As  Christ  was  view'd  as  slain  for  sin, 
Ere  man's  existence  did  begin  j 
The  law  which  God  to  man  did  give, 
Aliow'd  him  not  by  works  to  live. 

7  Since  Jesus  did  the  law  fulfil 
By  his  obedience  to  God's  will  ; 
So  he  salvation  grants  to  all, 
Who  ruin'd  were  by  Adam's  fall. 

8'  Thro'  Jesus'  merits  we  obtain 

Release  from  moral  death  and  shame  \ 
Him  for  salvation  then  we  bless, 
Who  is  our  head  and  righteousness. 

HYMN  XX.     S.   M. 

Man's  hop.es   and  fears,  evidence  of  the   it 
mortality  of  the  soul. 


WHY  do 
If  thei 


we  dread  to  die, 


As  then  from  us  all  pain  would  fly 
Of  which  we  here  partake. 

2  Why  love  our  breath  to  keep* 
Tho*  trouble  here  is  great, 
If  our  existence  ends  in  sleep. 
From  which  we  cannot  wake  I 


HYMNS.  &7 

1  Who  gave  of  life  the  love  ? 
Or  who,  of  death  the  dread  ? 
It  not  the  Great  First  Cause  above,— 
Of  man  the  life  and  head. 

4  If  there's  no  future  state, 
When  out  this  life  has  run ; 

What  does  our  hopes  and  fears  create. 
Respecting  such  an  one  ? 

5  How  came  our  race  at  first 
To  have  such  hope  and  fear, 
If  soul  and  body  turn  to  dust, 
When  ends  existence  here  ? 

£  If  there's  no  future  state, 
In  which  our  souls  appear, 
When  we  from  time  our  exit  take, 
What  imposition's  here  ! 

7  We  are  impos'd  upon 
By  what  existence  gives, 
If  there's  no  future  state  or  forrn, 
In  which  man's  spirit  lives. 

3  The  hope  of  future  life, 
And  endless  bliss  to  con9  ? 
Refute  the  Atheist's  noise  and  strife, 
Who  say  there's  neither  one* 

£  We  bless  creation's  Lord, 
Who  us  assurance  gives, 
By  nat'ral  reason  and  his  word, 
That  man  immortal  ia. 


28  HYMNS. 

HYMN  XXI.    C.  M,  * 

The  creation  of  the  world. — Gen.  i. 

1  "^T^^  *qt  a  sPac*0US  world  arise, 
.i.^1    Said  the  Creator,  Lord  : 

At  once  th' obedient  earth  and  skies 

Rose  at  his  sovereign  word. 

2  [Dark  was  the  deep  ;  the  waters  lay 

Confus'd  and  drowird  the  land  ; 
He  call'd  the  light ;  the  new-born  day 
Attends  at  his  command. 

£  He  bids  the  clouds  ascend  on  high  j 
The  clouds  ascend  and  bear 
A  wat'ry  treasure  to.  the  sky, 
And  float  on  softer  air. 

4  The  liquid  element  below, 

Was  gather'd  by  his  hand  : 
The  rolling  seas  together  flow, 
And  leave  the  solid  land. 

5  With  herbs  and  plants,  a  flowery  birth, 

The  naked  globe  he  crown'd, 
Ere  there  was  rain  to  bless  the  earth, 
Or  sun  to  warm  the  ground. 

6  Then  he  adorn'd  the  upper  skies  j 

Behold  the  sun  appears  : 
The  moon  and  stars  in  order  rise. 
To  mark  out  monihs  and  years. 

i  Out  of  the  deep  th'  almighty  King 
Did  vital  beings  frame} 


HYMNS.  #9, 

The  painted  fowls  of  ev'ry  wing, 
And  fish  of  ev'ry  name. 

ft  He  gave  the  lion  and  the  worm 
At  once  their  wond'rous  birth  ; 
And  grazing  beasts  of  various  form, 
Rose  from  the  teeming  earth. 

9  Adam  was  fram'd  of  equal  clay, 
Though  sov'reign  of  the  rest, 
Design'd  for  nobler  ends  than  they  j 
With  God's  own  image  blest. 

10  Thus  glorious  in  his  Maker's  eye 
The  young  creation  stood  ; 

He  saw  the  building  from  on  high, 
His  word  pronounc'd  it  good. 

1 1  Lord,  while  the  frame  of  nature  stands. 
Thy  praise  shall  fill  my  tongue  : 

But  the  new  world  of  grace  demands 
A  more  exalted  song. 


HYMN  XXII.    L.  M. 

Man' s  fall  and  recovery. 

1   TAECEIV'D  by  subtle  snares  of  hell, 
1  1  Adam  our  head,  our  father,  fell, 
When  Satan  in  the  serpent  hid, 
Propos'd  the  fruit  that  God  forbid. 

£  Death  was  the  threat'ning  ;  death  began 
Tq  take  possession  of  the  man  ;•• 
C  % 


&0  HYMNg. 

His  unborn  race  receivM  the  wound, 
And  heavy  curses  smote  the  ground. 

3  But  Satan  found  a  worse  reward  5 
Thus  saith  the  vengeance  of  the  Lord, 
64  Let  everlasting  hatred  be 

Betwixt  the  woman's  seed  and  thee. 

4  "  The  woman's  seed  shall  be  my  son, 
He  shall  destroy  what  thou  hast  done  ; 
Shall  break,  thy  head,  and  only  feel 
Thy  malice  raging  at  his  heel."     . 

5  He  spake  and  bid  four  thousand  years 
Roll  on  ;  at  length  his  Son  appears  ; 
Angels  with  joy  descend  to  earthy 
And  sing  the  young  Redeemer's  birth. 

6  Lo,  by  the  sons  of  hell  he  dies  ; 

But  as  he  hung  'twixt  earth  and  skies, 
He  gave  their  prince  a  fatal  blow, 
And  triumph'cl  o'er  the  povv'rs  below. 


HYMN  XXIir.     C.  M.  b 

tyck-bed    devotion  :    ory  pleading  without  re- 

1  fT^i  OD  of  my  life,  look  gently  down, 
VX  Behold  the  pains  I  feel  5 

But  I  am  dumb  before  thy  throne, 
Nor  dare  dispute  thy  will. 

2  Diseases  are  thy  servants,  Lord, 

Tbey  come  at  thy  command'} 


HYMNS.  31 

I'll  not  attempt  a  murm'ring  word, 
Against  thy  chast'ning  hand. 

3  Yet  may  I  plead  with  humble  cries, 

Remove  thy  sharp  rebukes  : 
My  strength  consumes,  my  spirit  dies* 
Through  thy  repeated  strokes. 

4  Crush'd  as  the  moth  beneath  thy  hand, 

We  moulder  to  the  dust  ; 
Our  feeble  pow'rs  can  ne'er  withstand. 
And  all  our  beauty's  lost. 

5  [This  mortal  life  decays  apace, 
How  soon  the  bubble's  broke  ! 
Adam  and  all  his  num'rous  race 

Are  vanity  and  smoke.] 

6  I'm  but  a  sojourner  below, 

As  all  my  fathers  were  ; 
May  I  be  well  prepar'd  to  go, 
When  I  the  summons  hear. 

T  But  if  my  life  be  spar'd  a  while, 

Before  my  last  remove, 
Thy  praise  shall  be  my  business  still, 

And  I'll  declare  thy  io»e. 


1 


HYMN  XXVI.    L.  M. 

Praise/or  Providence. 

"HY  ways,  O  Lord,  with  wise  design, 
Are  framM  upon  thy  throne  above, 


3£_  HYMNS, 

And  ev'ry  dark  or  bending  line, 
Meets  in  the  centre  of  thy  love. 

2  With  feeble  light,  and  half  obscure, 
Poor  mortals  thy  arrangements  view, 
Not  knowing  that  the  least  are  sure, 
And  the  mysterious  just  and  true. 

3  Thy  flock,  thy  own  peculiar  carp? 
Though  now  they  seem  to  roam  uney'd, 
Are  led  or  driven  only  where 

They  best  and  safest  may  abide. 

4  They  neither  know,  nor  trace  the  way, 
But  trusting  to  thy  piercing  eye  $ 
None  of  their  feet  to  ruin  stray, 

Nor  shall  the  weakest  fail  or  die. 

5  My  favor'd  soul  shall  meekly  learn, 
To  lay  her  reason  at  thy  throne  ; 
Too  weak  thy  secrets  to  discern, 
I'll  trust  thee  for  my  guide  alone. 


HY&M|  XXV.  L.  M, 

First  and  Second  Adam. 

1  T    ORD,  what  was  man,  wjien  made  at 

J  a  first, 

Adam  the  offspring  of  the  dust, 

That  thou  should'st  set  him  and  his  race, 

But  just  below  an  angel's  place  I 


HYMNS.  -33 

2  That  thou  should'st  raise  hi*  nature  so, 
And  make  him  lord  of  all  below  ; 
Make  ev'ry  beast  and  bird  submit. 
And  lay  the  fishes  at  his  feet. 

3  But  O  !  what  brighter  glories  wait 
To  crown  the  second  Adam's    state  ! 
What  honors  shall  thy  Son  adorn  5 
Who  of  a  virgin  pure  was  born  ? 

4  See  him  below  his  angels  made ; 
See  him  in  dust  among  the  dead, 
To  saye  a  ruin'd  world  from  sin  ; 
But  he  shall  reign  with  pow'r  divine. 

i?  The  world  to  come,  redeemed  from  all 
The  mis'ries  that  attend  the  fall, 
New  made  arid  glorious  shall  submit 
At  our  exalted  Saviour's  feet. 


HYMN  XXVI.     C.    M. 

Aloses,  Adroit^  and  Joshu* 

1  HP'IS  not  the  law  often  commands, 

&     OrUholy  Sinai  giv'n, 
Or  sent  to  men  by  Moses'  hands, 
Can  bring  us  safe  to  Heav'a* 

2  Tis  not  the  blood  which  Aaron  spilt, 
Nor  smoke  of  sweetest  smell, 

Can  buy  a  pardon  for  our  guilt, 
Or  save  our  souls  frqm  helU 


34  HYMNS. 

3  Aaron  the  priest  resigns  his  breath. 
At  God's  immediate  will, 

And  in  the  desart  yields  to  death 
Upon  th*  appointed  hill, 

4r  And  thus  on  Jordan,s  yonder  side 
The  tribes  of  Isr'el  stand, 
When  Moses  bow'd  his  head,  and  di'd 
Short  of  the  promis'd  land. 

4  Isr'el,  rejoice,  now  Joshua  leads, 
He'll  bring  your  tribes  to  rest ; 
So  far  the  Saviour's  name  exceeds 
The  ruler  and  the  priest. 


HYMN  XXVH.    P.  M. 

The  Ceremonial  Law  points  to  Christ. 

1  TSRAEL  in  ancient  days 

X  Not  only  had  a  view 

Of  Sinai  in  a  blaze, 

But  Iearn'd  the  gospel  too  ; 
The  types  and  figures  were  a  glass, 
In  which  they  saw  the  Saviour's  face.- 

2  The  Paschal  sacrifice, « 
And  blood  besprinkled  door, 
Seen  with  enlighten'd  eyes, 
And  once  apply'd  with  pow'r, 

Would  teach  the  need  of  other  blood; 
To  reconcile  mankind  to  God. 

I- The  lamb,  the  dove,  set  forth 
His  perfect  innocence,. 


HYMN$.  8,5 

Whose  blood  of  matchless  worthy 

Should  be  the  soul's  defence ; 
For  he  who  can  for  sin  atone, 
Must  have  no  failings  of  his  own. 

4  The  scape  goat  on  his  head, 
The  people's  trespass  bore, 
And  to  the  desert  led, 
Was  to  be  seen  no  more  : 

In  him  our  surety  seem'd  to  safij  , 
«  Behold  I  bear  your  sins  away." 

5  Dipt  in  his  fellow's  blood, 
The  living  bird  went  free  $ 
The  type  well  understood, 
Express'd  the  sinner's  plea  ; 

Bescrib'd  a  guilty  soul  enlarg'd, 
And  by  a  Saviour's  death  discharg'd, 

6  Jesus,  I  love  to  trace 
Throughout  the  sacred  page  ; 
The  footsteps  of  thy  grace, 
The  same  in  ev'ry  age  i 

O  grant  that  I  may  faithful  be 
To  clearer  light,  vouchsaf'd  to  mc„ 


HYMN.  XXVIII.  L,  M. 

->>  Our  Father  who  art  in    Heaven  $ 

\     \  RT  thou  my  Father  ?    Then  no  moj;o 
j\.  My  sins  shall  tempt  me  to  despair  £ 

My 'father  pities  and  forgives, 
And  hears  his  children'*  evry  prgye^ 


30  HYMNS. 

3  Art  thou  my  Father  I — Let  me  strive 
With  all  my  power  to  learn  thy  will  5 

To  make  thy  service  all  my  care, 
And  all  thy  wise  commands  fulfil. 

3  Art  thou  my  Father  N— Teach  my  heart 
Compassion  for  another's  woe, 

And  ever  to  each  child  of  thine 
A  brother's  tenderness  to  show. 

4  Art  thou  my  Father  ? — Then  I  know 
When  pain,  or  want,  or  griefs    oppress, 

They  come  but  from  a  Father's  hand, 
Which  wounds  to  heal,  afflicts  to  bless. 

5  Art  thou  my  Father  ? — Then  in  doubt 
And  darkness,  when  I  grope  my  way, 

A  light  shall  shine  upon  my  path, 
And  make  my  darkness  like  the  day. 

6  Art  thou  my  Father  ? — Then  no  more 
Tremble  my  soul  at  death's  alarms  ; 

He  comes,  a  Messenger  of  love, 
To  bear  me  tp  a  Father's  armj?, 

HYMN  XXIX.  C-  M. 

Invocation   to  universal  praise  of  God. 

I  TJH  AISE  ye  the  Lord,  y'  immortal  choir 
J7     That  fill  the  realms  above  ; 

Praise  him  who  form'd  you  of  his  fire, 
And  feeds  you  with  his  love. 

3  Shine  to  his  praise,  ye  chrystal    skies, 
The  floor  of  his  abode  3 


HYMNS.  3tt 

Or  veil  in  shades  your  thousand  eyes, 
Before  your  brighter  GOD. 

3  Those  restless  globes  of  golden  light, 
Whose  beams  create  our  days, 

Join  with  the  silver  queen  of  night, 
And  own  your  borrowed  rays. 

4  Winds,  ye  shall  bear  his  name  aloud, 
Through  the  etherial  blue  ; 

For  when  his  chariot  is  a  cloud, 
He  makes  his  wheels  of  you. 

5  Thunder  and  hail,  and  fire  and  storms3 
The  troops  of  his  command, 

Appear  in  all  your  dreadful    forms, 
And  speak  his  potent  hand. 

6  Wave  your  tall  heads,  ye  lofty  pines* 
To  Him  that  bids  you  grow  ; 

Sweet  clusters,  bind  your  fruitful  vines 
On  ev'ry  thankful  bough. 

7  Shout  to  the  LORD,  ye  surging  seas. 
In  your  eternal  roar  ; 

Let  wave  to  wave  resound  his  praise, 
And  shore  reply  to  shore, 


HYMN  XXX.     C.  M 

The  excellence  of  Scrifiture. 

RATHER  of  mercies,  in  thy  word, 
What  endless  glory  shines  ; 
D 


38  HYMNS 

forever  be  thy  name  ador'd 
For  these  qelestial   lines  ! 

2  Here  may  the  wretched  sons  of  want 
Exhaustless  riches  find  ; 

Riches  above  what  earth  can  grant, 
And  lasting  as  the  mind. 

3  Here  the  fair  tree  of  knowledge  grows, 
And  yields  a  sweet  repast  ; 

Sublitner  sweets,  than  nature  knows, 
Invite  the  longing  taste. 

4  Here  springs  of  consolation  rise 
To  cheer  the  fainting  mind  ; 

And  thirsty  souls  receive  supplies. 
And  sweet  refreshment  find. 

£  Here  the  Redeemer's  welcome  voice 
Spreads  heav'nly  peace  around  ; 

And  life  and  everlasting  joys 
Attend  the  blissful  sound  ! 

O  may  these  heavenly  pages  be 

My  ever  dear  delight  ; 
And  still  new  beauties  m  »y  I  see, 

And  still  increasing  light  ! 

7  Divine  Instructor,  gracious  Lord* 
Be  thou  forever  near  ; 
Teach  me  love  thy  sacred  word, 
And  view  my  Saviour  heie! 


HYMNS.  80 

HYMN  XXXI.  C.  M. 
All  Scripture  Precious. 

HOW  precious  is  the  book  divine, 
By  inspiration  giv'n  ! 
Bright  as  a  lamp,  its  doctrines  shine- 
To  guide  our  souls  to  heav'n. 

2  It  sweetly  cheers  our  drooping  hearts, 
In  this  dark  vale  of  tears  ; 
Life,  iight,  and  joy  it  still  imparts, 
And  quells  our  rising  fears. 

\  This  lump,  through  all  the  tedious  night 
Of  life  shall  guide  our  way, 
Till  we  behold  the  clearer  light, 
Of  an  eternal  dav. 


HYMN    XXXII.  L    M 

Moral  Age?its  influenced  by  God's  decrees, 

MANY  affirm  mankind  to  be 
Uninfluenc'd  by  God  s  decree  ; 
Who  yet  allow,  each  choice  and  deed 
Is  just  what  God  himself  decreed. 

2  If  men  the  will  and  pow'r  possess 
To  choose  and  do  nor  more  nor  less 
Than  God  foreknew  and  did   decree? 
They  are  not  moral  agents  free, 

•3  But  if  thev  more  or  less  can  do 


40  HYMNS. 

Than  God  decreed  or  God  foreknew  ; 
They  are  not  mov'd  by  his  decree, 
And  so  are  moral  agents  free. 

4  To  be  uninfluenc'c!  by  what 

God  hath  decreed  as  each  one's  lot. 
Is  not  to  have  the  work  depend 
On  means  adapted  to  the  end. 

H  Ends  rest  on  deeds,  and  deeds  on  will  : 
Will  rests  on  something  prior  still  ; 
That  prior  something  then  must  be 
The  fruit  or  force  of  God's  decree* 

6  If  men  in  ev'ry  choice  and  deed, 
Do  nothing  which  is  not  decreed  ; 
It  follows,  of  necessity, 

They  have  no  moral  liberty. 

7  If  nothing  done  by  Adam's  race 
Through  God's  decree  has  taken  place  J 
Then  useless  that  decree  we  view, 
Whose  ends  without  it  men  would  do, 

8  How  comes  man's  agency  to  be 
According  to  the  Lord's  decree  ? 
This  has  on  that  an  influence, 
And  that's  of  this  the  consequence. 


Y 


HYMN    XXXIII.     L.  M 

Th  a  n  ks-giving. 
E  sons  of  men  with  joy  record 
The  various  wonders  of  the  Lord 


HYMNS.  41 

And  let  his  pow'r  and  goodness  sound 
Thro'  all  your  tribes,  the  earth  around. 

2  Let  the  high  heav'ns  your  songs  invite, 
Thqse  spacious  fields  of  brilliant  light, 
Where  sun  and  moon,  and  planets  roll, 
And  stars,  that  glow  from  pole  to  pole, 

3  Sing  earth,  in  verdant  robes  array 'd, 

Its  herbs  and  flow'rs,  its  fruits  and  shade  j 

Peopled  with  life  of  various  forms, 

Of  fish,  and  fowl,  and  beasts,  and  worms, 

4  View  the  broad  seas,  Majestic  plains, 
And  think  how  wide  their  Maker  reigns  •; 
That  band  remotest  nations  joins, 

And  on  each  wave,  his  goodness  shines. 

.£   But  O  !  that  brighter  world  above, 

Where  lives  and  reigns  incarnate  love  i 
God's  only  Son  in  flesh  array'd, 
For  man,  a  bleeding  victim  made. 

6  Thither  my  soul  with  rapture  soar  ; 
There  in  the  land  of  praise  adore  ; 
The  theme  demands  an  angel's  lay, 
Demands  an  everlasting  day. 


HYMN  XXXIV   C.  M. 

fn  thee  and  in  thy  Seed  shall  all  the  families  oj 
the   earth  be  blessed. 


GOD 
In 


said  to  Abraham,  not  in 
thee  and  in  thy  seed 
D  2 


4&  Hymns. 

Shall  all  the  fam'lies  of  the  earth, 
Be  bless'd  by  me  indeed. 

2  Who  is  the  Seed  of  Abraham  ? 
May  fairly  be  inquired — 

We  answer,  'tis  the  Son  of  man, 
Who  hath  for  all  expir'd. 

3  It  is  the  woman's  promis'd  seed, 
Who  bruis'd  the  serpent's  head, 
And  will  destroy  his  works  indeed. 
And  kill  the  devil  dead. 

4  This  promise  made  in  ancient  time 
To  Abralvm  and  his  race  ; 
Brings  from  its  nature  all  divine, 
Salvation  free  by  grace. 

3  From  Christ  this  blessing  all'derive, 
Who  are  in  Adam  dead  ; 
In  him  shall  all  be  made  alive, 
Who  is  of  all  the  head. 

6  As  all  the  kindreds  of  the  earth 
In  Abrah'm's  seed  are  bleH  ; 
They  must  receive  the  second  birth* 
And  enter  into  rest. 


■j 


HYMN  XXXV.     C.  M 

Praise. 

OY  to  the  world  :  the  Lord  is  come  j 
Let  earth  receive  her  King  ; 


liYMNS. 

Let  ev'ry  heart  prepare  him  room. 
And  heav'n  and  nature  sing. 

2  Joy  to  the  earth,  the  Saviour  r< 
Let  men  their  songs  employ 
While  tieids    and  floods,    ro.:  ind 

plains 
.Repeat  the  sounding  joy. 

i  No  more  let  sins  audi  sr-rro 
Nor  thorns  infest  the  groin 
He  comes  to  make  his  bit- 
Far  as  the  curse  is  found. 

4  He  rules  the  world  with  truth  and  grace, 
And  makes  the  nations  prove, 
The  glories  of  his  righteousness. 
And  wonders  of  his  love. 


HYxMN  XXXVI.     L.  M 

Peace  on  earth  and  good  will  to  man. 

AWAKE  the  song  that  gave  to  earth 
Salvation  in  Immanuel's  birth  ; 
Angelic  tongues  the  strain  began  ; 
'Twas  Peaee  on  earth,  good  will  to  man. 

Celestial  Peace  !  and  is  it  ours 
To  strike  the  harp  on  Salem's  tow'rs  ; 
To  welcome  back  the  Dove  that  brings 
The  balm  of  healing  in  her  wings  ? 

She  comes  !  anddo  !  the  orphan's  wail 


4i  HYMKS, 

No  longer  loads  the  passing  gale  ; 
Contentment  sheds  her  sacred  calm} 
And  nature  owns  the  sovereign  charm. 

4  She  comes  with  banner,  spear  and  plume> 
That  led  to  conquest,  and  the  tomb  j 
Wreath'd  with  the  Olive  to  adorn 

The  triumphs  of  the  joyous  morn. 

5  She  comes — and  with  attentive  ear 

The  Gospel's  sound  the  Heathen  hear,— 
'Round  blood-stain'd  altars  throng  no  more, 
.But  suppliant  bow,  and  God  adore. 


HYMN  XXX VII.     OP.  M. 

Immanuel  is  born, 

ARISE,  and  hail  the  happy  day  ; 
Cast  all  low  cares  of  life  away. 
And  thoughts  of  meaner  things  : 
Tiiis  day  to  cure  our  deadly  woes, 
The  Sun  of  Righteousness  arose, 
With  healing  in  bis  wings. 

2  If  angels  on  that  happy  morn, 

The  Saviour  of  the  world  was  born, 
Pour'd  forth  their  joyful  songs  ; 
Much  more  should  we  of  human  race. 
Adore  the  wonders  of  his  grace, 
To  whom  that  grace  belongs. 

°>  O  then  let  heav'n  and  earth  rejoice, 
Let  ev'ry  creature  join  his  voice, 


HYMNS.  45 

To  hymn  the  happy  day  ; 
When  Satan's  empire  vanquish'd  fell, 
And  ail  the  pow'rs  of  death  and  hell 
Confess'd  his  sov'reign  sway. 


HYMN  XXXYIII.    C.  M. 

S-'ar 'f  Btthlchem  ;  ir  Gospel* 

1  T    O  !  Angels  to  the  earth  descend 
JL*  Upon  Immanuel's  birth  ; 
Proclaiming  him  the  real  friend, 
And  Saviour  of  the  earth. 

2  Immanu  el's  born  in  Bethlehem* — 

Good  news  to  all  our  race 
See  yonder  star  inviting  men 
To  come  and  see  his  face  ! 

3  Beneath  that  light  they  find  the  Babe* 
Not  on  a  downy  bed  ; 

He  in  a  manger  hard  is  laid, 
Where  cattle  now  are  fed. 

4  Was  such  hard  treatment  due  tc 
Who  came  to  save  our  race 
From  moral  death  (the  fruit  ot  sin) 
And  give  us  heav'n  by  grace  ! 

6  This  was  the  fruit  of  unbelief, 
That  Christ,  Jehovah's  Son, 
To  bring,  from  death,  the  world  relief 
in  form  of  man  would  come. 


43  HYMN  5, 

6  Let  us  who  soon  by  death  must  fa.II, 
Since  God  the  earth  did  curse, 
Immanuel's  bie^sed  name  extol, 
Who  di'd  and  rose  for  us. 

7  While  these  glad  tidings  bring  relief 
From  fear  of  endless  woe  ; 
Torrents  of  tears,  for  joy  and  grief, 
From  all  our  eyes  should  flow 


HYMN  XXXIX    ?<s 

A  Saviour  ivho  is  Christ  the  Lord 

\    T  TARK  !  the  herald  angels  sing, 
171  Glory  to  the  new-born  K;> 
Peace  on  earth,  and  mercy  mild, 
God  and  sinners  reconcil'd. 

Joyful  all  ye  nations  rise, 
Join  the  triumphs  of  the  skies  j 
Nature  rise  and  worship  him, 
Who  is  born  in  Bethlehem. 

3  Hail  the  Heav'n-born  Prince  of  Peace 
Hail  the  Son  of  Righteousness  ! 
Light  and  life  around  he  brings, 
Ris'n  with  healing  in  his  wings. 

4  Mild  he  lays  his  glory  by, 

Born  that  men  no  more  may  die  ; 
Born  to  raise  the  sons  of  earth  ; 
Born  to  give  them  second  birth. 


HymnS.  47 

5  Conic,  desire  of  nations,  come, 
Fix  in  us  thy  heav'nly  home  : 
Rise,  the  woman's  conqVing  seed, 
Bruise  in  us  the  serpent's  head. 

6  Adatn's  likeness  now  efface, 
Stamp  thy  image  in  its  place  : 
Second  Adam  from  above, 
Work  it  in  us  by  thy  love, 


HYMN  XL.    S.  M. 

Presentation  in  the  Tinhfile. 

J      A    LL  hail, thou  great  firstborn, 
JHJL   The  holy  head  of  man  ! 
What  floods  of  Grace  roll  on  to  view- 
In  mercy's  glorious  plan  ! 

2  Thy  fulness  mankind  are  : 
The  temple,  Lord,  art  thou  : 

Thy  body  comprehends  the  whole, 
Of  Adam's  tribes  below, 

3  In  thee,  presented  pure 
Before  the  throne  of  God, 

AD  nations  there  are  made  anew. 
Of  one  life  giving  blood. 

4  First  born  of  Heav'n,  of  earth, 
Of  ev'iy  creature,  hail  ! 

Born  to  redeem  from  death  and  hell 
Thy  purpose  cannot  fail 


48  JUMV- 

5   The  skies  may  waste  in  flame  ; 
All  systems  melt  away  ; 
The  sun  himself  turn  black  as  night  j 
And  earth  be  lost  to  day  ; 

9  But  thou  shalt  still  remain, 
Th'  unchanging  Son  of  God  ; 
And  as  eternal  ages  roll, 
Thy  name  shall  be  ador'd. 


HYMN  XLL     S.  M. 

Christ  came  not  to  destroy  the  lavj   or  Profih- 
ets. — MATT.  v.    17,    18. 

1  T  CAME  with  no  design, 
JL  Led  by  my  Father's  arm. 
To  disannul  his  law  divine, 
Or  harm  his  prophets  harm. 

2  O,  that  was  not  the  cause 
For  which  on  earth  I'm  come  ; 
'Tis  to  fulfil  his  righteous  laws. 
As  an  obedient  son. 

3  The  law  more  firm  shall  stand 
Than  heav'n,  and  earth,  and  sea  : 
Which  being  kept  at  his  command 
The  pris'ners  shall  go  free. 

4  If  Christ  the  law  fulfil. 
Against  which  all  rebel  ; 

It  cannot  be  his  Father's  will 
To  send  a  soul  to  hell. 


H 


HYMNS,  49 

HYMNXL1I.    CM. 

Offices  of  Christ. 
ARK  the  glad   sound  !    the    Saviour 


comes, 

The  Saviour,  promis'd  long  ; 
Let  ev'ry  heart  prepare  a  throne, 
And  ev'ry  voice  a  song. 

2  On  him,  the  spirit  largely  pourd, 
Exerts  its  sacred  fire  ; 

Wisdom  and  might,  and  zeal  and  love, 
His  holy  breast  inspire. 

3  He  comes,  the  pris'ners  to  release, 
In  Satan's  bondage  held  ; 

The  gates  of  brass  before  him  burst, 
The  iron  feiters  yield. 

4  He  comes,  from  thickest  films  of  vice, 
To  clear  the  mental  ray  ; 

And  on  the  eye  opprest  with  night, 
To  pour  celestial  day. 

5  He  comes,  the  broken  heart  to  bind, 
The  bleeding  soul  to  cure  ; 

And,  with  the  treasures  of  his  grace, 
T'  enrich  the  humble  poor. 

6  Our  glad  Hosannas,  Prince  of  Peace, 
Thy  welcome  shall  proclaim  ; 

And  Heav'ivs  eternal  arches  ring 
With  thy  beloved  name. 
E 


50  HYMNS. 

HVMN    XUII.  C.  If. 

Miracles  and  works  of  Jesus. 

1  TESUS,  as  we  have  understood, 
if    By  his  true  record  giv'n, 
Pass'd  here  his  time  in  doing  good, 
And  teaching  things  from  heav'n. 

2  Remote  from  love  of  self,  and  pride, 
And  free  from  pow'r  of  sin  ; 

He  laid  his  person's  ease  aside, 
And  serv'd  the  heav'nly  King. 

3  The  widow  and  the  fatherless 
Receiv'd  his  visits  kind  ; 

He  gave  them  ease  from  their  distress 
Of  body  and  of  mind. 

4  Born  sinners  all  alike  to  save, 
Whom  God  the  Father  made  ; 
To  all  he  kind  attentions  gave, 
Who  stood  in  need  of  aid. 

5  He  to  the  blind  their  sight  restor'd, 
And  in  their  joyful  hour  ; 

He  bade  them  praise  for  this  the  Lord, 
To  whom  belong'd  the  pow'r. 

ft  The  lame  and  halt  their  Strength  receive; 
And  leap  exulting  round  $ 
They  in  the  Son  of  God  believe, 
And  tell  who  made  them  sound 

7  In  the  cold  grave,  as  Laz'rus 
I  While  Oow  affection's  tears) 


HYMXS.  51 

45  LazYus  come  forth,''  our  Jesua  cries, 
And  Lazarus    appears  1 

8  August  display  of  pow'r  divine 
In  Christ  our  living  head  ; 
To  make  the  light  in  darkness  shine, 
And  raise  to  life   the  dead  \ 


HYMN  XLIV.     lis.  Dactylc. 

Wheat  and  Tares. 

jnPVVAS  on  the  green   banks  of  Euphra* 
X  tes'  fine  stream, 

Jehovah  omniscient,  all  wise  and  supreme. 
First  station'd  our  father  in    Eden's  swee; 

bovv'r, 
With  Eve  his  companion,  a  delicate  fiovvV. 

2  He  sow'd  their  young  bosoms  with  seed  in 

their  youth, 
With    reason,     benevolence,    virtue     and 

truth  ; 
And  on  the  same  ground  where  the  choice 

seed  was  sown, 
The  tares  by  the    tongue    of  the    serpent 

were  thrown. 

3  'Tis  plain  to  be  seen,  that  the  heart  is   the 

ground, 
Where  truth  and  deception  are  both  to  b« 

found  ; 
The**  are  the-  two  seeds  which  the  human 

heart  briars* 


58  HYMNS. 

And  all  that  is  meant  by  the  wheat  am!  the 
tares. 

4  The  servants  of  old,  they  saw  not  in  their 

day, 
How  God  his  great  goodness  to  men  would 

convey  ; 
They  saw  not  the  depth  of  that    wonderful 

plan, 
Which  wisdom  had  drawn  for  the  welfare 

of  man. 

5  The  servants  saw    tares,    and    the    wheat 

bearing  fruit 
Said  "  let  us  go  pull    up  the    tares  by  the 

root  :" 
But  the  mild  voice  of  wisdom  said  t;  O  no— . 

forbear, 
Lest   you    by    so  doing   the  wheat  should 

impair. 

6  Let  both  grow  together,  till    ripe    in    the 

field, 

That  man  may  partake  of  the  fruits  they 
both  yield  ; 

That  by  their  effects  he  may  well  ascer- 
tain. 

That  truth  yields  him  pleasure,  but  false- 
hood gives  pain.'' 

7  Man  early  imbibed  false  notions  of  God, 
buppos'd  him  a  tyrant,  and  vengeance,  his 

rod  : 
The  hand  of  Tradition  e'er  since  man  be- 
gun, 


HYMNS.  b& 

Has    borne    the   delusion    from    father  tk 
son. 

8  The    Father    of   mercies    his   bosom    un- 

furPd, 
Sent  Christ  to  bear  witness  of  him  to  the 

world  ; 
Invested  with  wisdom  and  virtue  to  prove, 
That  God  is  eternal,  unchangeable  love. 

9  The  Jews  disbelieving  in  him,  they  began 
To    seek   the    sweet   lite   of  that  innocent 

man  ; 
Condemn'd   him    unjustly   to  hang  on  the 

u«ee — 
And  bear  death's  keen  anguish,  as  so  'twas 

to  be. 

JO  The  earth  was  convuls'd  and  her    bowels 
distressed  ; 
The  heavens  in  mourning    appeared  to  be 
dress'd  : 

The  stars  and  pale  Luna  and  Sol's    rolling- 
flame, 

All  shrank  froip  beholding    the    dr3ath    oi' 
the  Lamb. 

II  His  healitlg  the  m\%  ,  kud    faiffe  raising  the 

dead, 
His  feeding  the  hungry  with    meat,    drink 

arid   bread  ; 
His  casting  out  devils,  restoring  the  blind. 
All  prove   Him  who  sent  him,  a   friend  ta 

mankind, 
E  2 


54  HYMNS. 

12  The   love  that  inspir'd  while    he  was  on 

earth* 

Was  stronger,  ten  thousand  times  strong- 
er than  death  : 

Love  mov'd  him  to  finish  the  Task  that 
was  iriv'n, 

And  rais'd  him  from  death  to  the  mansions 
of  heav'n. 

13  By  this  we   discover  that    mankind  shall 

tiuve 
A  lasting  existence  beyond  the  cold  grave, 
R-imov'd  from   a    state    of  corruption  like 

this, 
To  dwell  in  perfection's  soft  bosom  of  bliss. 

5  4  The  old  dispensation  pass'd  oft' — and    the 

new 
Unveils    now    a    scene  of  bright  glory  to 

view  ; 
The  banner,  bright  banner  of  Truth  was 

unfuii'd, 
The  ensign  of  Peace  and  Good  Will  to  the 

world. 

15  The  Harvest  appear'd,  and  the  fields  were 

all  white, 
The  reapers  came  forth  on    the  first  dawn 

of  light  ; 
The  reapers  are  those  whom  our  God  doth 

inspire 
To  gather  up  falsehood  and  burn    it    with 

fire. 

16  The    Spirit   of  Truth    is   the    sickle   so 

keen  ; 


The  luminous   flame    is  the    fire    that  we 

mean  ; 
The  Temple  of  Friendship   and    Love    is 

the  place 
For  the  Mind,   when  refined,  of  the  whole 

human  race. 

{Tunc  Messiah.} 


HYMN  XLV,    P.  M. 

The  nativity  of  Christ. 

1  TTJROUD  Roman    World  !    behold    the 
JL  morn,  f 

A  Saviour  comes,  adore  him  ! 
Let  peace  this  day-spring  beam  adorn, 
The  Janus  close — God's  son  is  born, 

Let  Idols  shrink  before  Him  ! 

2  lie    comes  !     He    comes  !     shout    worlds 

around, 

Through  boundless  space,  the  story  ^ 
This  day,  the  demon  Death  is  bound  ; 
For  lo  !  to  triumph  o'er  Kim's  found 

The  Lord  of  Life  and  Glory  ! 

3  No  pomp,  no  pageantry  of  pride, 

Attends  th'  incarnate  stranger  ; 
(Thy  guilt,  degenerate  man,  denied) 
The  lowly  straw,  a  couch  supplied, 

His  cradle  was  a  manger  1 

4  Hark  !  the  mysterious  Babe  before. 

What  harmony  of  voices,! 


do  hymns. 

Plell  triumphs  o'er  the  world  no  more, 
She  trembLs  in  her  darkling  core. 
The  Host  of  Heaven  rejoices  « 

5  Full  thro*  the  air  angelic  choirs, 

Resound  ecstatic  chorus  • 
Wrapt  Seraphim  the  theme  inspires, 
"  Glory  to  God  !  this  day  requires, 

Peace,  lead  the  song  before  us  !'* 

6  Glory  to  God  ! — Good  will  to  men, 

Peace,  smile  forever  vernal  ! 
Let  heav'n  re-echo  to  the  strain, 
This  day  thv  Prince  begins  to  reign. 

Whose  reign  shall  be  eternal  I 


HYMN  XLVL  C.  M. 

Christ  will  destroy  the  devil  and    his  works 
Heb.  ii.   14,  15. 

1  HJ HE  Son  of  God  on  purpose  came 

I     Into  this  world  of  ours  ; 
To  save  our  souls  from  sin  and  shame, 
And  slay  all  hellish  pow'rs  : 

2  And  to  deliver  all  the  souls, 
Which  during  nat'ral  breath, 
The  devil  here  in  bondage  holds, 
Through  slavish  fear  of  death. 

3  No  matter  who  the  devil  is. 
That  Jesus  shall  destroy  ; 

When  him  his  death  Immanue!  gives, 
lie  shall  no  Wore  annoy. 


HYMNS. 

4  What  tho'  the  devil  rage  and  roar, 
And  scares  the  soul  with  lies  ; 
This  prince  of  air  can  do  no  more, 
Than  move  our  fears  and  sighs. 

5  The  precious  souls  he  leads  astray, 
And  holds  in  mental  pain  ; 

Shall  see  emancipation's  day> 
And  shout  the  Victor's  name. 

6  This  bold  usurper  being  dead, 
And  sin,  his  works,  destroy'd  ; 

In  praising  God  and  Christ  their  head 
All  souls  will  be  employ 'd. 


HYMN  XL VII.    L.  M. 

God's  infinite  wisdom,  fioiver  and  goodness 
secure  his  will,  and  guarantee  the  salvation, 
of  all  mankind, 

THAT  God  is  Father  of  us  all, 
And  boundless  in  his  attributes, 
No  man  upon  this  earthly  ball, 
lb  reason's  exercise,  disputes. 

2  Now  as  our  God  is  infinite 

In  goodness,  wisdom,  povv'r  and  skill  ; 
The  devil  cannot  him  outwit, 
Nor  foil  the  purpose  of  his  will* 

5  As  God  is  infinitely  good, 
So  his  goodness  must  be  unconfin'd  ; 
It  must  of  course  be  understood 


58  HYMNS. 

1"  embrace  alike  the  humankind. 

4  As  God  is  inntely  wis*. 

Who  for  hU  purpose  form'd  our  race  ; 
He  diil  ihe  best  of  plans  devise 
For  our  Salvation  thro"  his  grace. 

3  As  God  is  infinitely  strong. 

His  pow'r,  as  wise  and  good  he  sees  ;' 
Secures  his  will  t' wards  Adam's  throug, 
And  their  salvation  guarantees. 

6  We  bless    our  God,  whose  attributes 
Ensure  us  heaven  after  death, 
For  this  distinction  from  his  brutes, 
Whose  spirits  perish  with  their  breath. 


HYMN  XLVIII.  L.  M. 

The  fall  of  Adam  according  to  God-s  will* 

\  TF  God  foreknew  that  man  would  fall, 
j[.   But  did  not  that  event  decree  ; 
Then  God  whom  great  first  Cause  we  call, 
No  cause  of  that  event  couid*  be. 

2  If  God  foreknew  that  man  would  fall, 
And  willing  was  it  should  take  place; 
Then  Adam's  falling  we  may  call 
The  purpose  of  the  God  of  grace. 

3  If  God  foreknew  that  man  would  fall, 
JBut  had  no  will  it  should  be  so  ; 
Necessity  on  him  did  call 


HYMNS.  SD 

His  will  and  purpose  to  forego. 

4  If  our  Creator  hud  no  will 

That  man  should  either  stand  or  fall  * 
This  product  then  of  pow'r  and  skill, 
Flow'd  from  its  Cause  for  nought  at  all. 

5  As  Adam  was  a  work  of  skill. 

In  which  a  soul  with  matter  joined  f 
Jehovah  form'd  him  at  his  will, 
To  answer  some  wise  end  d;  sign'd 

6  Now  since  his  fall  has  taken  place, 
It  answer'd  his  Creator's  aim  ; 

It  laid  the  ground  for  love  and  grace. 
The  vessel  marr'd,  anew  to  frame. 

7  Redemption's  plan  by  God  was  laid, 
Ere  he  to  Adam  life  had  giv'n  ; 
And  preparation  fully  made 

To  bring  the  Prodigal  to  heav'n.- 


HYMN  XLTX.   C.  M. 

The  death  of  Adam's  body  not  the    Conse- 
quence of  sin. 

}  HpHAT  Adam's  body  did  not  die 
JL     ]n  consequence  of  sin  ; 
Appears  a  fact,  of  which  we'll  try 
Convincing  proof  to  bring. 

2  If  Adam  di'd  a  nat'ral  death 
In  consequence  of  sin  ; 


60  HYMNS. 

The  clay  he  fell  he  lost  his  breath} 
As  God  had  threat'n'd  him. 

3  That  he  no  nat'ral  death  did  die 
The  day  he  ate  and  fell,  * 

Is  truth  no  person  can  deny, 
Who  means  the  truth  to  tell. 

A  If  Adam  di'd  but  moral  death 
In  consequence  of  sin  ; 
Then  thro'  the  serpent's  windy  breath- 
The  devil  ll'd  to  him. 

5  How  can  we  then  the  fact  dispute, 
That  Adam  and  his  bride, 

Had  they  not  eat  forbidden  fruit, 
Would  still  as  mortals  di'd  I 

6  Did  Eve  and  Adam  first  enjoy 
Immortal  flesh  and  blood  ? 

If  so,  could  death  for  sin  destroy, 
This  deathless  work  of  God  ? 

7  Had  both  their  frames  immortal  been 
Upon  recieving  breath  ; 

They  never  had  committed  sin, 
Nor  subjects  been  of  death. 

8  God  did  not  tell  our  parents  first 
From  whom  we  being  draw, 

That  they  should  never  turn  to  dust 
If  they  would  keep  the  law. 

9  If  always  meant  in  time  to    stay. 
Their  bodies  di'd  for  sin  : 


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As  well  the  souls  might  die    away 
Which  Goduhath  put  therein, 

10  Thus  moral  death  alone  we  die 
In  consequence  of  sin  ; 

Down  to  the  dust  all  bodies  hie. 
Which  thence  by  nature  spring. 

1 1  Now  be  the  second  Adam  blest, 
Who  takes  our  sin  away  ; 

And  brings  our  souls  to  endless  rest. 
Beyond  this  house  of  clay. 


HYMN  L.    CM. 

ilAs  in  Adam  all  die,  even  so  in  Christ  shall  all 
be  made  alive" 

1  \   S  all  in  Adam  die,  we  find, 
jlV.  Who  life  from  him  derive  ; 
E'er  so  in  Christ  shall  all  mankind 
Be  surely  made  alive. 

2  However  large  the  number  is 
Which  do  in  Adam  die  ; 

Life  to  that  number  Christ  shall  give, 
And  all  the  loss  supply. 

3  That  kind  of  life  which  all  have  lost 
By  reason  of  the  fall, 

Will  be  restor'd,  at  Jesus' cost, 
And  equal  make  them  all. 

4  Then  let  us  no  distinction  make 

F 


0S  HYMNS. 

Amongst  our  father's  heirs  ; 
Who  makes  alive,  for  Jesus'  sake, 
What  his  own  image  bears. 

5  To  God,  by  us,  due  praise  be  giv'n, 
Whose  grace  extends  so  wide  ; 
That  all  in  Christ  have  life  and  heav'ty 
Who  have  in  Adam  di'd. 


HYMN  LI.     S.  M. 

Way,  Truth  and  Life. 

1   T  AM,  saith  Christ,  the  Way : 
J_  Now  if  we  credit  him, 
All  other  paths  must  lead  astray. 
How  fair  soe'er  they  seem. 

S  I  am,  saith  Christ,  the  Truth  : 
Then  all  that  lacks  this  test, 
Proceed  it  from  an  angel's  mouth, 
Is  bui  a  lie  at  best. 

3  I  am,  saith  Christ,  the  Life  : 
Let  this  be  seen  by  faith  ; 

It  follows,  without  further  strife. 
That  all  besides  is  death. 

4  If  what  those  words  aver, 
The  Holy  Ghost  apply  ; 

The  simplest  christian  shall  not  err? 
Nor  bedeceiv'd,  nor  die. 


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HYMN  LII.     C.  M. 

Ye  are  Christ's  and  Christ  is  GodU 
I  Cor.  III.  23. 


:A 


S  in  a  seed  do  hidden  lie 
The  branches  and  the  fruit, 
To  be  discern'd  by  mortal  eye, 
When  thence  in  time  they  shoot 


'2  So  in  the  Saviour  all  mankind, 
As  branches  in  a  seed, 
Included  are,  as  God  design'd— 
Whence  they  in  time  proceed. 

3  God  is  the  head  of  Jesus  Christ  ; 
And  Christ,  the  head  of  man  : 

In  God  our  Saviour  has  his  life  ; 
And  we,  in  Christ  the  Lamb. 

4  All  souls  belong  to  Jesus  Christ ; 
And  Christ  belongs  to  God  : 

In  Christ  all  have  eternal  life, 
Who  shed  for  all  his  blood. 

5  Satan  from  Christ  can  take  no  soul. 
Which  did  in  Adam  fall  ; 

For  God  has  given  Christ  the  whole, 
And  will  defend  them  all. 


HYMN  I.lU.     L.  M. 

Jtll  that  die  in  Adam^are  made  alive  in  Christ 
I     \   S  all  men  once  in  Adam  fell 

IX.  From  life,  from  heav'n,  to  death  ar; 
hell  ; 


<H  HYMNS. 

E'en  so  are  all  men  now  restored 

To  life,  to  heav'n,  in  Christ  theu"  Lord. 

2  As  Adam  comprehended  all, 
In  his  obedience,  and  his  fall  ; 
So,  in  himself,  his  toil  and  pain, 
Christ  comprehended  all  again. 

3  In  Adam  doom'd  to  punishment 

For  sin,  which  had  not  our  consent  ; 
So  Christ,  without  our  choice  or  aid, 
AnnulPd  our  crimes,  our  debts  all  paid. 

4  The  method  of  redeeming  grace, 
Highest  in  dignity  and  place, 

First  claims  our  wonder,  love  and  praise, 
And  joy  in  Jesus  all  our  days, 

5  Tis  free,  we  neither  ran  nor  fought  ; 
Tis  free,  it  cost  us  not  a   thought : 
Tis  free,  the  gift  is  from  above, 
And  worthy  of  the  God  of  love, 

6  Nor  is  the  gift  of  God  confiivd  : 
Tis  freely  giv'n  to  all  mankind  ; 
As  true  to  who  have  not  believ'd, 
As  such  as  have  the  gift  receiv'd. 

7  In  Christ  where  grace  and  peace  abound  ; 
The  balm  is  equal  to  the  wound  : 

In  Christ  salvation's  wrought  for  all. 
Who  were  involv'd  in  Adam's  fell.. 


HYMNS. 
HYMN  LIV.  L.   M. 

•  Praise  to    Christ  for  the    m 

and  death. 

1  "XJOW  let  us  praise  th 
JJS|     Who  wash'd  our  & 

blood  ; 
And  by  his  passion  on  the  r , 
Took  from  our  souls  the  da:. 

2  Upon  the  tree  our  Saviour  bote 
The  sins  of  all,  a  burden  sore  ; 
Beneath  the  pressure  of  which  load. 
He  sweat  apparent  drops  of  blood. 

3  There  Jesus  hung  for  mercy's  ends. 
Forsaken  by  his  bosom  friends  ; 
His  father's  presence  seeming-  gone. 
And  Christ  in  agony>  forlorn  1 

4  While  hanging  thus  for  man's  relief. 
On  either  side  there  hung  a  thief, 
To  aggravate  the  infamy 

Attach'd  to  dying  on  a  tree. 

5  Left  to  his  foes — without  a  friend, 
Death  did  his  mortal  suff'rings  end  s 
Thus  died,  O  man  !  thy  Saviour  dear, 
Of  sorrow,  rather  than  the  spear. 

6  Then  truly  Jesus  may  receive 

The  thanks  and  praise  of  all  who  live  j 
His  life,  and  death  on  wisdom's  plan. 
Salvation  bring  to  ev'ry  man. 
F  2 


66  HYMNS. 

7  O  may  we  often  think  of  him, 
Who  died  to  make  an  end  of  sin  ; 
And  glory  give  the  Great  I  Am, 
For  this  display  of  love  to  man. 


HYMN  LV.    L.  M. 

The  free  salvation  of  God. 

IS  finish'd  ;  so  the  Saviour  cried, 
And  meekly  bow'd  his  head  and  died  ; 
"Tis  finish'd  ;  yes,  the  race  is  run, 
The  battle  fought,  the  vict'ry  won. 


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2  'Tis  finish'd  ;  all  that  heav'n  decreed, 
And  all  the  ancient  prophets  said 

Is  now  fulfilTd,  as  was  design'd, 
In  me  the  Saviour  of  mankind. 

3  'Tis  finish'd  ;  Aaron  now  no  more 
Must  stain  his  robes  with  purple  gore  : 
The  sacred  veil  is  rent  in  twain, 

And  Jewish  rites  no  more  remain. 

4  'Tis  finish'd  ;  this  my  dying  groan 
Shall  sins  of  ev'ry  kind  atone  ; 
Millions  shall  be  redeem'd  from  death, 
By  this  my  last  expiring  breath. 

5  'Tis  finish'd  ;  heav'n  is  reconcil'd, 
And  all  the  pow'rs  of  darkness  spoil'd 
Peace,  love,  and  happiness  again 
Return  and  dwell  with  sinful  men 

6  'Tis  finish'd  ;  let  the  joyful  sound 


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Be  heard  through  all  the  nations  round  : 

'Tis  finish'd  ;  let  the  echo  fly 

Thro*  heav'n  and  hell,  thro'  earth  and  sky. 


HYMNLVI.    CM. 

The  Saviour 's  Message. 

1  TTARK,  'tis  the  Saviour  of  mankind, 
X~l  Speaks  to  his  chosen  few  ; 

'Tis  he  who  leads  the  wand'ring  blind, 
In  ways  they  could  not  know. 

2  Tis  he  who  says,  «  Go  forth  my  friends, 
Proclaim  my  truth  to  all  ; 

Inform  each  soul  my  grace  extends 
As  wide  as  Adam's  fall. 

3  Tell  sinners  of  the  deepest  dye, 
That  they  may  life  obtain  ; 

I  chose  the  cursed  death  to  die, 
And  taste  infernal  pain  ! 

4  What  though  my  ransom'd  may  refuse, 
The  message  to  receive  ; 

And  you  the  messengers  abuse, 
Yet  still  I  came  to  save. 

5  Yea,  should  the  tempter  still  prevail 
To  blind  my  people's  eyes  ; 

In  my  great  day  I'll  rend  the  veil 
From  all  beneath  the  skies. 

6  Then  ev'ry  eye  shall  see  the  gr 


68 


RYMSTS. 


You  now  in  faith  declare, 
And  I  myself  from  ev'ry  face, 
Will  wipe  off  ev'ry  tear." 

7  Lord,  we  believe  thy  sacred  word, 
And  wait  the  glorious  day, 
When  ev'ry  soiil  by  grace  restor'd. 
Shall  walk  in  wisdom's  way. 


HYMN  LVII.  7s. 
Lift  up,  your  heads  ^  ye  everlasti?:g  doora, 

ANGELS,  roll  the  rock  away, 
Death,  yield  up  thy  mighty  prey  ; 
See  !  he  rises  from  the  tomb, 
Glowing  with  immortal  bloom. 

2  'Tis  the  Saviour  !  angels,  raise 
Fame's  eternal  trump  of  praise  ; 
Let  the  earth's  remotest  bound, 
Hear  the  joy  inspiring  sound, 

3  Mortals,  now  lift  up  your  eyes, 
Now  to  glory  see  him  rise  ; 

In  long  triumph  up  the  sky, 
LTp  to  waiting  worlds  on  high. 

4  Heav'n  displays  her  portals  wide, 
Glorious  Jesus  through  them  ride  ; 
King  of  glory,  mount  thy  throne, 
Thy  great  father's  and  thy  own. 

5  Praise  him,  all  ye  heav'nly  choirs  j 


HYMNS.  6$ 

Praise  and  i\vecp  your  golden  lyres; 
Shout,  O  earth,  in  rapt'rous  song, 
Lei  the  strains  be  sweet  and  strong. 

6  Ev"ry  note  with  wonder  swell, 
Sin  overthrown,  and  captur'd  hell  ; 
Where  is  hell's  once  dreadful  king  ? 
Where>  O  death,  thy  mortal  sting;  \ 


HYMN  LVIII.     S.  Tr 
The  Sabbath  ;  or  Christ's  it 

HAIL,  d.iy  af  sacri  \ 
On  which  but  Sa  .  ;, 

And  burst  the  mss/  baj  j  of  utath 
Triumphant  o'e*  nis  toes  I 


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By  delegated  powV, 
He  captive  led  grin  death  ; 
And  rising  at  th'  appointed  hour, 
Resum'd  his  precious  breath. 

2  When  he  was  crutify'd. 
To  free  our  souls  from  pain, 
His  life  from  choice  he  laid  asidej 
And  took  it  up  again. 

4  Then  on  this  glorious  day, 
Which  brings  our  Lord  to  view  % 
Mortals,  to  him  due  homage  pay 
Who  di'd  and  rose  for  you. 

5  Let  ev'ry  heart  unite 


70  HYMN&, 

In  love  and  praise  of  him, 

Who  putting  death  and  hell  to    flight 

Salvation  hath  brought  in. 


HYMN    LIX.  C.    M. 

Christ  was  before  Abraham   as  his  sted. 

1  "O  EFORE  the  patr'arch  Abrah'm  wai, 
X3  I*  the  Redeemer  am  ; 

I,  of  his  being  am  the  cause, 
As  head  of  ev'ry  man. 

2  Abrah'm  rejoic'd  my  day  to  see 
And  at  the  sight  was  glad  ; 
For  in  the  interview  with  me, 
He  sweet  communion  had. 

3  Were  you  the  children,  as  you  say, 
Of  faithful  Abraham  ; 

You  would,  as  he  did,  God  obey, 
And  love  the  Son  of  man. 

4  Were  you  his  sons,  as  you  pretend, 
Both  aged  men  and  youth, 

You  would  not  seek  to  kill  your  friend, 
For  telling  you  the  truth. 

5  Ere  on  the  Cross  the  Saviour  died, 
From  him  they  pardon  drew — 

«  Father,  forgive  them,''  Jesus  cried, 
16  They  know  not  what  they  do." 


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HYMN  LX.     H.  M. 

The  Lord  is  ris'n  indeed. 

1   "XTES,  ihe  Redeemer  rose  ; 
JL     The  Saviour  left  the  dead  ; 
And  o'er  our  hellish  foes 
High  rais'd  his  conq'ring  head  : 
In  wild  dismay  the  guards  around 
Fall  to  the  ground,  and  sink  away. 

2  Lo  !    the  angelic  bands 
In  full  assembly  meet, 

To  wait  his  high  commands, 

And  worship  at  his  feet  : 

Joyful  they  come,  and  wing  their  "way 

From  realms  of  day,  to  Jesus'  tomb, 

3  Then  back  to  heav'n  they  fly, 
The  joyful  news  to  bear; 
Hark  !  as  they  soar  on  high, 
What  music  fills  the  air ! 

The  anthems  say,  "  Jesus  who  bled 
Hath  left  the  dead  ;  he  rose  to-day/1 

4  Ye  mortals  catch  the  sound, 
Redeenvd  by  him  from  hell ; 
And  send  the  echo  round 

The  globe  on  which  you  dwell ; 
Transporting  cry,  "  Jesus  who  bled 
Hath  left  the  dead,  no  more  to  die.7* 

5  All  hail,  triumphant  Lord, 
Who  sav'd  us  with  thy  b'.oodj 
Wide  be  thy  name  adoi'd. 


78  HYMNS. 

Thou  risen  Son  of  God  ! 

With  thee  we  rise,  with  thee  we  reign, 

And  empires  gain  beyond  the  skies. 


HYMN  LXI.     L.  M. 

C/iriat's  Resurrection  a    Pledge  of  Ours 

I  T  T  THEN  I  the  holy  grave  survey, 
VV     Where   once  my  Saviour    deign'd 
to  lie  ; 
I  see  fulfill'd  what  prophets  say, 
And  all  the  pow'r  of  death  defy. 

3  This  empty  tomb  shall  now  proclaim 
How  weak  the  brands  of  conquer'd  death  : 
Sweet  pledge,  that  all  thro'  his  dear  name. 
Snail  rise  and  draw  immortal  breath  ! 

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3  Our  surety  freed,  declares  us  free, 
For  whose  offtnces  he  was  seiz'd  : 
In  his  release,  our  own  we  see, 
And  shout  to  view  Jehovah  pleas'd. 

4  Jesus,  once  number'd  with  the  dead, 
Unseals  his  eyes  to  sleep  no  more  ; 
And  ever  lives,  their  cause  to  plead, 
For  whom  the  pains  of  death  he  bore. 

5  Thy  risen  Lord,  my  soul,  behold  ; 
See  the  rich  diadem  he  wears  ! 
Thou,  too,  shalt  bear  an  harp  of  gold, 
To  crown  thy  joy  when  he  appears. 

I  Tho'  in  the  dust  I  lay  my  head, 


HYMNS.  7$ 

Yet,  gracious  God,  thou  wilt  not  leave 
My  flesh  forever  with  the  dead, 
Nor  lose  thy  children  in  the  grave* 


HYMN  LXII.    L.  M. 

Christ  .having  been  lifted  u/i  from    the  earthy 
will  draw  all  men  unto  him. 

1  A    ND  I,  if  I  be  lifted  up, 

XlL   And  suffer  death  upon  the  tree  ; 
I  shall  become  the  ground  of  hope, 
And  draw  all  human  souls  to  me. 

2  Jesus  hath  hung  upon  the  cross 
Between  the  spacious  heav'n  and  earth  ; 
Where  he  of  life  sustain'd  the  loss, 
And  gave  to  free  salvation  birth. 

3  At  his  expiring  groan,  he  cry'd 

61  'Tis  finish'd" — giving  up  the  £host  J 
And  thus  the  law  he  satisfy'd 
For  Adam  and  his  numerous  host. 

4  On  the  third,  as  he  design'd, 

He  rose  triumphant  from  the  grave, 
In  spite  of  death  and  hell  combin'd, 
And  prov'd  his  pow'r  mankind  to  save, 

5  With  acclamations  let  us  sound 

The  praise  of  Christ,  the  heav'nly  Dovs, 
And  thro'  Creation  spread  around 
This  great  transaction  of  his  love, 

H  Say  ♦#  the  north  thy  twbute  bring, 
G 


HYMNS*' 


And  to  the  south,  thy  homage  pay 
While  east  and  west  united  sing, 
And  hail  our  Saviour's  rising  day. 


HYMN  LXTTI.   C.  M\ 

Praying  for  the  afire  ad  of  illumination  by Christ \ 

1  TESUS.  thou  Day-spring  from  on  high, 
J    Arise  in  ev'ry  breiort ; 

And  make  the  moral  darkness  fly, 
Of  which  it  is  possess'd. 

2  Thou  vehicle  of  heav'nly  light, 
From  God  to  sinners  here  ; 
Giye  ev'ry  one  horn  blind  his  sight 
To  see  his  Saviour  clear. 

3  The  sable  clouds  of  sin  and  guilt, 
Shall,  at  thy  bidding,  flee  : 

And  all  for  whom  thy  blood  was  splk, 
In  thee  their  friend  shall  see. 

4  As  thou  for  all  hast  bled  and  died, 
To  save  their  souls  from  hell  ; 
To  all  thy  blood  must  be  apply'd, 
That  they  may  all  do  well. 

5  This  in  time's  fulness  will  be  done? 
We  hope  and  e?en  believe  ; 

As  thou  hast  purchased  ev'ry  one, 
And  must  (hy  rights  receive. 


HYMNS.  7A 

HYMN  LXIV.  L.  H. 

The  death  of  the  Lord  of  Glory. 

STRETCH'D  on  the  cross   the   Saviour 
dies  ; 
Hark  !  his  expiring  groans  arise  ! 
See,  from  his  hands,  his  feet,  his  side, 
Runs  down  the  sacred  crimson  tide  i 

2  But  life  attends  the  deathful  sound, ^ 

.  And  flows  from  ev'ry  b  eeding  woiwEi  * 
The  vital  stream  how  free  it  flows, 
To  save  and  cleanse  his  rebel  foes  I 

3  To  suffer  in  the  traitor's  place, 
To  die  for  man,  surprising  grace  ! 
Yet  pass  rebellious  angels  by  ; 

O,  why  for  man,  dear  Saviour,  why  ! 

4  And  didst  thou  bleed,  for  sinners  bleed  ! 
And  could  the  sun  behold  the  deed  ? 
No,  he  withdrew  his  sick'ning  ray, 
And  darkness  veil'd  the  mourning  day. 

5  Can  I  survey  this  scene  of  woe, 
Where  mingling  grief  and  wonder  flow  j 
A       pet  my  heart  unmov'd  remain, 
Insensible  to  love  or  pain  ? 

6  Come,  clearest  Lord,  thy  pow'r  impart, 
To  warm  this  cold,  this  stupid  heart  ; 
Till  al'  its  pow'rs  and  passions  move 
In  melting  grief,  and  ardent  love. 


76  HYMNS, 

HYMN  LXV.  CM 

Rejoicing  in  God,  for  the  firosfiect  of  univerr 
sal  Salvation. 

1  "O  EJOICE,  ye  ransom'd  of  the  earth  ; 
XV  Let  songs  your  tongues  employ  ; 
For  all  must  have  the  second  birth, 
And  enter  into  joy. 

2  For  promises  of  endless  rest, 
We  bless  our  friend  divine  ; 

And  hope  our  souls  on  Jesus'  breasts 
In  glory  will  recline. 

j3  We  thank  our  Maker  and  our  King 
Who  sent  his  Son  on  earth, 
Our  souls  to  glory  home  to  bring, 
And  give  them  second  birth. 

4  Though  strait  the  way  that  leads  to  life, 
Our  souls  shall  enter  in- 
Led  through  by  our  kind  Leader,  Christy 
Who  through  himself  hath  been. 

5  On  reaching  the  bright  courts  above, 
We'll  join  the  heav'nly  choir, 

To  praise  the  Lord  whose  name  is  love, 
And  Christ,  our  souls'  desire. 


HYMN  LXVI.    C.  M. 

The  erroneous  notion  of  sheep,  and  goats ,  staf* 
ed  and  corrected. 


1  W"" 


HAT  curious  notions  now  reside 
many  a  cjiri&tian's  mind, 


HYMNS.  77 

Who  into  sheep  and  goats  divide 
The  mass  of  human  kind  ! 

2  Believers  they  as  shetp  esteem, 
Which  wool  in  plenty  bear ; 

By  unbelievers,  goats  they  mean, 
Which  nothing  bring  but  hair, 

3  To  part  them  thus  there  is  no  need, 
Which  sep'rate  are  by  kind  ; 
From  this  division  then  recede, 
And  be  of  lib'ral  mind. 

4  If  for  a  sheep  we  take  a  goat, 
(The  thing  however  strange) 

Can  in  our  heads  the  thought  afloat^ 
The  creature's  nature  change  ? 

5  The  goa;  will  still  a  goat  remain, 
And  coyer'd  be  with  hair  ; 

The  sheep  its  nature  still  retain, 
And  wool  as  usual  wear. 

PAUSE. 

£  Can  faith  the  nature  change  of  facts, 
And  truth  convert  to  lies  ? 
Or  unbelief  of  things  and  acts 
Make  truth  from  falsehood  'rise  ? 

7  If  all  as  goats  by  nature  range, 
Their  species  they  must  keep  ; 
For  sheep  to  goats  can  never  change, 
Nor  goats  turn  into  sheep. 

3  In  view  of  law,  since  Adam's  fall, 
AH  wsar  of  goats  the  name  ; 
G  2 


V&  HYMNS. 

But  in  the  Gospel's  light,  they  all 
Of  sheep  the  traits  sustain. 

9  By  faith,  in  Jesus  we  behold 
The  Shepherd  of  the  sheep  ; 
He'll  gather  all  into  the  fold, 
And  them  in  safety  keep. 


HYMN  LXVII.    L»  M 

On  the  finite  nature  of  sin. 

1  ^T^HIS  Universe,  to  say  the  most, 

l     But  of  one  boundless  Cause  can  boast$ 
He  built  the  world  and  rules  the  same, 
And  great  Jehovah  is  his  name. 

2  All  beings  else,  whoe'er  they  be, 
Are  creatures  form'd  by  Deity  ; 
And  in  the  aggregate  if  view'd, 
Fall  far  below  infinitude. 

3  As  God  is  ev'ry  creature's  ground, 
And  to  their  natures  sets  the  bound  J 
The  greatest  deeds  which  any  do, 
We  must,  of  course,  as  finite  view* 

4  The  sins  of  Adam's  num'rous  tribe 
For  whose  remission  Jesus  died, 
Must  finite  actions  stand  confess'd, 
As  finite  are  their  pow'rs  at  best, 

3  The  matter  then  is  clear  and  plain, 
AH  sins  as  finite  ills  obtain  » 


HYMNS,  79 

Hence  we  in  sins  degrees  confess, 
And  call  some  greater  ;  others,  less. 

6  IF  sins  were  evils  infinite 
Which?  moral  agents  here  commit  ?* 
What  rivers  infinite  would  flow 
From  finite  sources  here  below  I 


HYMN  LXVIII.    C.  M. 

Creation  and  Revelation, 

1  T  TAIL  Infant  Time  I    when   this    hugs 
11         world 

From  non-existence  rose  ! 
When  earth  was  on  its  axis  hurl'd 
To  wheel  without  repose  ! 

2  Each  planet,  form'd,  its  station  took 
Its  course,  its  years  to  run  ; 

And  circling  thro'  its  Maker's  look, 
Moves  ceaseless  round  the  sun  I 

3  The  morning  stars  together  sang, 
And  Gabr'el  led  the  choir  ; 
With  songs  seraphic  nature  rang 
To  hymn  Creation's  Sire  ! 

4  Now  from  the  caverns  of  the  earth 
In  springs  the  water  came  ; 

And  forming  rills,  gave  riyers  birth. 
That  sought  the  briny  mam, 

5  The  earth  descending  to  the  seas, 


SO  HYMNS, 

In  vales  of  nat'ral  form — 

The  rivers  made  their  course  in  these* 

By  gravitation  drawn. 

6  The  planets  which  the  heav'ns  adorn 
And    wheel  without  a  pause  ; 

In  harmony  their  rounds  perform, 
Mov'd  by  their  Maker's  laws  ; 

7  Who  but  must    adoration  feel 
For  nature's  God  and  Guide  ! 
Who  doth  himself  to  man  reveal 
Through  his  Creation  wide  ! 

8  But  greater  cause  his  name  to  love 
Hath  he  to  mortals  giv'n. 

In  sending  Jesus  from  above, 
To  lead  us  home  to  heav'n  1 

9  While  nature's  works  keep  Gcd  in  sight; 
And  make  us  him  adore  ; 

His  works  of  Revelation  bright, 
fSiill  make  us  love  him  more  ; 


HYMN     LXIX.  1     M 

The  heavens  deelare  the  Existence  and  Glory 
tf  God. 

THE  lofty  pillars  of  the  sky, 
And  spacious  concave  rais'd  on  hjgh* 
SpangPd  with*  stars,  a  shining  frame. 
Their  great  Original  prociaitfi 


HYMNS.  81 

2  Th'  unweariM  sun,  from  day  to  day, 
Pour's  knowledge  on  his  golden  ray  j 
And  publishes  to  ev'y  land 

The  work  of  an  Almighty  rand. 

3  Soon  as  the  ev'ning  shades  prevail, 
The  moon  takes  up  the  wond'rous  tale  ; 
And  nightly,  to  the  listening  earth, 
Repeats  the  story  of  her  birth  ; 

5  While  all  the  stars  that  round  him  burn, 
And  all  the  planets  in  their  turn, 
Confirm  the  tidings,  as  they  roll. 
And  spread  the  truth  from  pole  to  pole* 

5  What  tho'  in  solemn  silence  a,H 
Move  round  this  dark  terrestrial  ball  ? 
What  tho'  no  real  voice  or  sc 
Amid  their  radient  orbs  be  ib  ind. 

6  In  reason's  ear  they  all  rejoice 
And  utter  forth  a  glorious  voice  ; 
Forever  singing,  as  they  shine, 

#  The  hand  that  made  us  is  divine.'* 


HYMN  LXX,     L.  M. 

Objects  of  God's  foreknowledge,    objects  of 
his  will. 

J  T  TOW  many  hold,  the  Deity 

XX  Foreknew     whatever      would    * 

place, 
And  yet  deny  he  did  decree 
What  is  perform'd  by  Adam's  :?.ce  ? 


83  HYMXS. 

2  What  God  foreknows  will  come  to  pass. 
Must  come  to  pass  as  'twas  foreknown  \ 
For  if  it  otherwise  take  place, 
A  want  of  foresight  thence  were  shown. 

2  If  God  foreknew  what  man  would  do, 
What  he  foreknew,  must  be  his  will  ; 
And  what's  foreknown  he  must  pursue, 
Or  else  defeat  his  pow'r  and  skill. 

4  If  what  the  Lord   foreknew  he'd  act 
Would  not  fulfil  his  righteous  mind, 
He  must  have  been  compel'd  in  fact, 
Against  his  will  to  form  mankind- 

5  For,  if  from  choice  God  made  our  race 
To  choose  and  act  against  his  will  ; 
Man  must  defeat  him,  in  that  case, 

His  mind  and  pleasure  to  fulfil  ! 

6  The  God  of  wisdom,  pow'r  and  skill, 
Can  neither  choose  nor  have  defeat  ; 
Then  ev'ry  human  deed  and  wiii 
Subserves  our  Maker's  will  complete. 

7  Cease  then  of  moral  pow'rs  to  talk, 
And  to  this  obvious  truth  concede  $ 
That  in  the  course  foreknown  to  walk, 
Is  walking  in  the  course  decreed. 

8  Arminian,  drop  the   thought  impure, 
That  works  procure  you  heav'n  as  pay  ^ 
All  have  in  Christ  salvation   sure— 
The  Resurrection,  life  and  way 


HYMNS.  §i 

HYMN  LXXI.     H.  M, 

Jubilee. 

\   TJLOW,  ye  the  trumpet,  blow 
D  The  gladly  solemn  sound  ? 
Let  all  the  nations  know 
To  earth's  remotest  bound, 
The  year  of  Jubilee  is  come  5 
Return,  ye  ransom'd  sinners,  home. 

2  Exalt  the  Lamb  of  God, 
The  sin  atoning  Lamb  ; 
Redemption,  by  his  blood, 
Thro'  all  the  lands  proclaim  : 
The  year  of  jubilee  is  come  ; 
Return,  ye  ransom'd  sinners,  home. 

3  Ye,  who  have  sold  for  nought 
The  heritage  above  ; 

Shall  have  it  back,  unbought, 
The  gift  of  Jesus'  love  ; 
The  year  of  Jubilee  is  come  ; 
Return,  ye  ransom'd  sinners,  home. 

4  Ye  slaves  of  sin  and  hell, 
Your  liberty  receive  ; 
And  safe  in  Jesus  dwell, 
And  blest  in  Jesus  live  : 
The  year  of  jubilee  is  come  ; 
Return,  ye  ransom'd  sinners,  home. 

C  The  gospel  trumpet  hear, 
The  news  of  pard'ning  grace  : 
Ye  happy  souls,  draw  near, 
Behold  your  Saviour's  ficc  ; 


&4?  HYMNS. 

The  year  of  jubilee  is  come  ; 
Return,  ye  ranso'm'd  sinners,  home. 

6  Jesus,  our  great  High  Priectj 
Has  full  atonement  made  : 
Ye  weary  spirits,  rest  ; 
Ye  mournful  souls,  be  glad  ! 
The  year  of  Jubilee  is  come  ; 
Return,  ye  ransbm'd  sinners,  homef, 


HYMN  LXXII.  CM. 

The    -vanity    of   Men    undertaking  to    make 
Prosehjtes.— Matt,  xxiii.   15.     Luke  xi 

"  39. 

SEE  the  proud  Pharisees  conspire 
With  all  their  ze'al  and  might  ; 
See  !  how  they  labor,  sweat  a<h&  tire, 
To  make  one  proselyte. 

2  When  they  pronounce  him  finish'd  well, 
Each  part  completely  fair  ; 

He's  twice  as  much  a  child  of  hell, 
As  his  converters  are  : 

3  They  wasTi  the  outside  white  and    clean  ; 
But  never  cleanse  the  heart, 

Nor  yield  him  peace  or  love  within. 
For  that's  beyond  their  art. 

4  They  shut  the  kingdom  up,  alar  ! 
Against  the  race  of  man  ; 


HYMNS.  85 

They  suffer  not  themselves  to  pass5 
But  hinder  all  they  can. 

5  Woe  to  the  base,  dissembling  train  i 
To  ev'ry  whited  wall  ; 
For  God  will  prove  their  projects  vain; 
And  disannul  them  all. 

(6  They  shall  be  try'd  by  heav'nly  fire, 
And  they  must  suffer  loss  ; 
Themselves  be  sav'd,  their  works  expire, 
And  they  be  ckans'd'  from  dross. 


HYMN  LXXIII.  L.  M, 

*t  The  love  of  monexj  is  the  root  of  all   eviL 

1  HPHE  love  of  money  is  the  root 

Jl     Of  evil  much,  without  dispute  ^ 
As  hist'ry  sacred  and  profane, 
And  daily  facts  to  us  proclaim. 

2  Good  Jacob  lov'd  so  well  to  live,. 
He  would  not  to  his  brother  give 
A  mess  of  broth  his  life  to  save, 
Till  he  to  him  his  birth-right  gave.. 

3  Judas  whom  love  of  money  sway'd, 
His  Lord  and  Master  once  betray'd 
Into  the  hand  of  foes  severe, 

For  thirty  bits  of  silver — dear  ! 

4  How  many  a  Judas  in  our  day 
For  cash  their  duties  do  betray  I 

H 


88 

Who,  bent  on  gain  by  ev'ry 
Fear  neither  God  nor  pity  man. 

5  O  may  we  all  in  this  our  land 
Religion's  value  understand  ; 
In  practice  put  the  Golden  Rule, 
And  cease  to  act  the  knave  or  fool. 


HYMX  LXXIV.     L.  M. 

Man  a  mixture  of  tight  and  shade  ;  or  capable 
of  good  and  bad  actions, 

I     \  LL  men  by  nature  more  or  less, 
XIl  Good  qualities  and  bad  possess  ; 
And  mov'd  to  action  by  the  will, 
Do  sometimes  good,  and  sometimes  ill. 

When,  as  their  conscience  leads,  they  act, 
They  approbation  feel  in  fact  ; 
And  thro'  the  satisfaction  giv'n, 
Enjoy  within  a  kind  of  heav'n. 

3  But  when  they  from  the  rule  depa- l 
From  selfish  motives  at  the  heart  : 
They  feel  disapprobation's  sting; 
The  fear  and  pangs  of  hell  within. 

4  They  on  their  mifitJs  damnation  3r& 
On  ev  ry  breach  of  known  good  law  : 
And  little  feei  in  'others  eyes; 

And  in  their  own  themselves  dc  ■  -    5 


limm  $7 


Becomes  its  own  correction's  rod 
And  as  it  does  the  soul  regard, 
The  sinner's  way  is  rough  and  ' 


HYMN  LXXV.      3,  M, 
Horrors  of  Calvinism  sketched 

1  /"\H  i  what  a  wretched  thing- 
\J  It  were  to  be  a  man, 

To  go  to  woe,  but  not  for  sin, 
On  reprobation's  plan  \ 

2  To  have  a  deathless  soul, 

In  God's  own  image  made, 
A  subject  held  at  his  control. 
In  future  mis'ry  laid ! 

3  To  strive  in  vain  to  die, 

While  death  away  should  flee* 
And  agonizing,  hopeless  lie, " 
To  all  eternity  ! 

4  Made  for  perdition's  sake, 

By  God,  whose  name  is  love  { 
To  bear  eternal  torture's  weight, 
In  sight  of  bliss  above  I 

5  Then  blest  is  ev'ry  beast 

Above  the  reprobate  ! 
Which,  having  had  of  life  its  feastf 
Eternal  »t  take  i 


®$  HYMNS* 

PAUSE. 

6  OF  God  we  better  think, 

Whose  love  and  grace  we  know  ! 
Than  to  suppose  his  hand  will  sink 
One  soul  to  endless  woe  ! 

7  Jehovah  sent  his  Son 

The  world  of  man  to  save  ; 
Then  if  hrs  will  is  ever  done. 
Salvation  ail  will  have, 


HYMN  LXXYI.     L.  M. 

Universal  Condemnation  by  the  Jirst  Adam  p 
but  Universal  Justification  by  the  second 
Adam — Rom.  v.  18. 

1  A    S  by  fch*  offence  of  one,  we  all 
_1Jl   Were  sinners  made  on  Adam's  fall, 
And  judgment  came  on  ev'ry  soul, 

And  condemnation  on  the  whole  ; 

2  So  by  the  righteousness  of  One, 
The  gift  divine  has  freely  come 
On  ev'ry  soul  whose  guilt  was  rife,- 
And  justify 'd  the  whole  to  life. 

3  All  Christians  warmly  do  contend. 
That  all  against  the  law  offend; 
And  that  transgression  did  expose 
The  whole  to  moral  death  and  woe*. 

4  Still  have  the  greater  part  deny'd. 
That  Christ  the  whole  hath  justify 'd ; 


Thooglh  he  fu ifi I'd,  when  he  expired, 
The  law  whose  breach  their  death  requir'U.r 

5  Though  they  allow,  in  the  Jirst  case> 
All  means  the  whole  of  Adam's  race; 
They  in  the  second,  say  it  means 
Afiart)  the  which  he  but  redeems. 


ain 

im 


6  Thus  Hmilar'ans  oft  expl 
The  Scriptures  when  it  suits  their  a 
But  thanks  to  God,  salvation  stands 
Safe  in  our  dear  Redeemer's  hands. 

7  As  all  in  Adam  sinn'd  and  fell 
Together  into  death  and  hell  ; 
So  all  by  Christ  are  justify'd, 

And  must  with  him  in  heav'n  reside. 

8  Our  thanks  and  love  are  due  to  him 
Whose  grace  is    greater  than  our  sin  j 
Since  he  to  save  the  world  was  giv'n, 
And  will  of  course  take  all  to  heav'ift 

9  Then  let  us  praise  the  name  of  God 
Whose  Son  .for  all  hath  fcpilt  his  blood  ; 
Kepair'd  the  ruins  of  the  fail, 

Ai  d  endless  bliss  secur'd  to  all 


knd  'lie  Devil  altyfciiyr-&x$.  iii.  15 

i    O INCE  Satan  i-\  as  all  confess, 
k)  The  too  of  Christ  and  i-ighteousness 

II   2 


|)0  HYMNS. 

They  do  each  other's  cause  abhor, 
And  live,  of  course,  at  open  Avar. 

2  As  Jesus  di'd  for  ev'ry  soul, 
Intending  thus  to  save  the  whole  ; 
He  will,  in  time,  the  work  complete; 
Unless  he  gets  by  satan  beat. 

3  Though  satan  spreads  for  all  his  snares, 
To  catch  their  spirits  unawares; 

He  shall  abortive  find  each  plan, 
To  get  from  Christ  a  single  man, 

&  When  Jesus  on  the  earth  did  dwell, 
jfe;;  met  the  fiends  of  hell  ; 
And  if  dispute  or  war  ensu'd, 
He  took  the  spoil  and  them  subdu'cl. 

5  When  seven  devils,  to  their  shame3 
Possessed  Mary  Magdalene  ; 

Our  Saviour  by  a  word's  rebuke, 
Cast  out  the  seven,  past  dispute* 

6  If  him  a  host  of  fiends  obey'd, 

And  yielded  up  the  prey  they'd  made  -; 
He  can,  when  'tis  his  Father's  will, 
A  legion  of  such  devils  kill. 

7  Then,  limitar'an,  quit  your  plan  ; 
Salvation  shout  for  every  man  ; 
Jesus  from  all  the  curse  averts, 
JBestroying  satan  and  his  work* 


* 


HYMN  3,  /         ;H 

IIYMN  LXXV1IL    C  M. 

<*  W/nk    bare  our  sins  in  his  own  body   on  the 
tree." 

1  AS  Jesus  in  his  body  bore 
j£\  Our  sins  upon  the  tree  ; 
Can  heavenly  justice  ask  for  more,- 
To  set  the  prisoners  free  ? 

2  As  Christ,  whom  we  thy  Saviour  view^ 
Has  borne  our  burden  sore  ; 

The  law  from  him  hath  had  its  due* 
And  can  demand  no  more. 

As  he  whom  we  Messiah  call. 
Has  suffer'd  in  our  stead  ; 
He's  paid  the  law  its  dues  for  all. 
As  ev'ry  member's  head. 

4  Since  Jesus  bore  this  sinful  load, 
And  satisfy'd  the  law  ; 
Into  the  kingdom  of  his  God, 
He  will  his  members  draw. 


HYMN  LXXIX.     C.  M. 

The   glories  of  Kedemfitiqn* 

ATIIER,  how  wide  thy  glory  shines  I 
How  high  thy  wonders  rise   ! 
Known  thro'  the  earth  by  thousand  signs,, 
By  thousands  thro'  the  skies, 


F 


98  HYMNS. 

2  Those  mighty  orbs  proclaim  thy  pGyfr^ 
Their  motions  speak  thy  skill  ; 

And  on  the  wings  of  ev'ry  hour 
We  read  thy  patience  still. 

3  Part  of  thy  name  divmely  stands 
On  all  thy  creatures  writ  ; 

They  show  the  labor  of  thy  hands, 
The  impress  of  ihy  feet. 

4  But  when  we  view  thy  grand  design 
To  save  rebellious  worms, 

Where  wisdom,  pow'r,  and  goodness  shines 
In  their  most  glorious  forms  : 

5  Our  thoughts  are  lost  in  rev'rend  awe  ; 
We  love,  and  we  adore  $ 

The  holy  angels  never  sa_w 
So  much  of  God  before. 

6  Here  God  hath  made  his  nature  known, 
And  thought  can  never  trace, 

Which  of  his  glories  brightest  shone, 
la  our  Redeemer's  face. 


HYMN    LXXX.     S.  M. 

Reason  for  believing'  in  the  immortality  oj  the 
souly  as  a  sefiarate  thinking  sicbstance. 

1   rTPO  what  strange  cause  is  due 
A     The  deists'  notion  droll  ; 
That  God  whom  they  thro'  nature  -    ;tr, 
Absorbs  at  death  the  soul. 


HYMNS.  98 

2  The  soul's  desire  to  live 
„-To  all  eternity, 

Must  to  the  soul  a  prospect  give 

Of  Immortality. 

5  If  that  which  animates 
The  human  form  in  time, 
Ot  God's  own  nature  but  partakes, 
The  soul  is  then  divine. 

i  If  God  the  ocean  be, 
Whence  souls  as  drops  are  drawn  ; 
Must  they  drop  into  Deity, 
And  lose  their  sep'rate  form  ? 

5  As  God  did  form  the  sotil, 
He  can  our  souls    sustain  ; 

And  them  as  vital  sparks  control* 
To  love  and  praise  his  name. 

6  Why  then  should  Deity, 
Who  gave  our  spirits  birth, 
Destroy  their  personality, 
Soon  as  they  leave  the  earth  ? 

7  The  God  in  whom  we  live 
Declares  by  nature's  word, 
That  ev'ry  human  spirit  is 
The  candle  cf  the  Lord. 

3  Can  there  remain  a  doubt, 
Th'  assertion  is  not  true  ? 
Will  God  himself  the  light  put  qJU, 
By  which  his  hand  we  view  ? 

9  In  reason's  verdict  trust  : 


$4  HYMNS. 

All  doubts  and  fears  dismiss  ; 
Believe  and  hope  our  spirits  must 
Have  endless  life  and  bliss. 

10  Our  souls  must  separate  live} 
To  think,  to  see  and  know, 
That  God  did  each  existence  give 
His  love  for  all  to  show. 

1 1  Now  may  the  God  of  all, 
Restore  the  deis.s'  sight, 

That  they  may  let  their  system  fallf 
And  walk  in  Gospel  light. 


JJYMX  LXXXL     L,  M.  * 

Rejoicing  in  the  Saviour, 

1  HI^O  him  who  brought  salvation  down5 

jL     Let  everlasting  praises  be  ; 
And  everlasting  glories  crown 
The  head  of  him  who  ranscm'd  me* 

2  Loud  praises  to  our  Jesus  sing, 
Who  reigns  array'd  in  majesty  ; 
Who  took  away  death's  cruel  sting. 
And  from  the  grace,  the  victory. 

3  He  diM  to  give  our  souls  relief; 
His  vital  blood  he  f.  eely  spilt 
To  calm  the  raging  seas  of  grief, 
And  wash  away  the  hills  of  guilt. 

d  Blest  be  the  only  Son  of  God, 


HYMNS,  95 

Who  bore  thy  sins,  my  soul,  for  thee, 
And  bury'd  them  in  his  own  blood, 
As  in  a  deep  and  boundless  sea. 

5  He  sav'd  us  from  our  sins  and  shame  j 
And  bore  our  guilt,  a  heavy  load  ; 
Blest  be  thine  everlasting  name, 
Jesus  our  Saviour,  Son  of  God, 


HYMN  LXXXII,  L.  M. 

Whfit  Christ  hath  done  is  the  foundation  fw 
our  2~aith» 

THE  only  cure  for  slavish  grief, 
Is  faith  in  God's  beloved  Son  ; 
The  only  ground  for  our  belief, 
Is  what  the  mighty  God  has  done, 

2  If  Jesus  has  not  ransom'd  all  ; 
Then  those  for  whom  he   did  not  die, 
If  they  believe  on  him    at  ail, 

Most  surely  would  believe  a  lie. 

3  If  there  be  some  he  never  freed, 
And  They  indeed  believe  the  same  ; 
Then  they  believe  the  truth  indeed, 
And  now  wherein  are  they  to  blame  ? 

4  If  Jesus  di'd  but  for  a  part, 

And  tho&e  for  whom  he  spilt  his  blood, 
Believe  the  same  with  all  their  heart. 
Their  faith  is  solid,  true  and  good. 


96  HYMNS. 

5  If  God  did  reprobate  a  part, 
I  boldly  testily  to  you, 

If  they  believe  it  in  their  heart, 
Their  faith  is  good,  because  'tis  true* 

6  If  this  be  true,  I  ask  of  you, 

And  for  an  answer  fain  would  wait — 
Which  party  has  the  better  faith, 
The  chosen,  or  the  reprobate  ? 


HYMN    LXXXIII.  C.  M. 

No  human  soul  eternally  miserable,  unless 
God  is  either  unwilling  or  unable  to  save 
the  whole* 


1  TT 
1  < 


is  impossible  that  one 
Of  all  the  human  kind 
To  endless  woe  should  ever  comej, 
Unless  for  woe  design'd. 


2  If  one  is  furm'd  for  future  woe5 
And  never  ending  pain, 

To  endless  torment  he  must  go, 
Or  he  is  made  in  vain. 

3  If  God  for  mis"ry  one  design'd, 
It  is  from  choice  or  need  ; 

Or,  from  them  both  as  one  combind. 
'Twill  be  by  all  agreed. 

4  If  God  hath  form'd  one  soul  for  woe, 
When  he  could  sav'd  the  whole  ; 
Then  from  his  choice  alone  must  flovF 
The  ruin  cf  that  sou], 


HYMNS,  97 

5  If  one  be  damn'd  an  endless  space, 
Against  the  will  of  heav'n  ; 
God's  want  of  pow'r  in  such  a  case, 
That  soul  to  woe  has  driv'n. 

6  If  God  who  gives  all  life  and  breath, 
That  did  in  Adam  fall, 

Makes  one  from  choice  for  endless   death, 
He  is  not  good  to  all. 

7  If  God  who  fills  unbounded  space, 
One  s»ul  from  need  doth  damn  ; 
He  cannot  do,  in  ev'ry  case, 

His  will  with  ev'ry  man. 

8  If  God  from  Choice  and  need,  as  one, 
Has  form'd  the  human  kind  ; 

All  tlijo'  the  merit3  of  his  Son, 
Eternal  life  will  find. 

0  As  our  Greater  "  God  is  love," 
Whose  Son  hath  di'd  for  all  ; 
He'll  take  the  whole  to  bliss  above, 
Who  did  in  Adam  fall. 


HYMN  LXXXIV.     L.  M. 
Glory  and  grace  in  ImmanueL 

1   "^J*OW  t0  tne  Lord  a  noble  song  ! 
UN    Awake,  my  soul,  awake  my  tongue. 
Hosanna  to  th'  eternal  name, 
And  all  his  boundless  love  proclaim. 


98  &y?to, 

2  See  where  it  shines  in  Jesus0  ' 
The  brightest  image  of  his  grace  : 
God,  in  the  person  of  his  Son, 
Has  all  his  mightiest  works  outdone 

3  The  spacious  earth,  and  spreading  flood, 
Proclaim  the  wise,  the  pow'rful  God, 
And  thy  rich  glories  from  afar 
Sparkle  in  ev'ry  rolling  star  : 

4  But  in  his  looks  a  glory  stands, 
The  noblest  labor  of  thine  hands  : 
The  pleasing  lustre  of  his  eyes 
Outshines  the  wonders  of  the  skies. 

5  Grace  !  'tis  a  sweet,  a  charming  theme  ; 
My  thoughts  rejoice  at  Jesus'  name  ! 

Ye  angels,  dwell  upon  the  sound  ; 
Yc  heav'ns,  reflect  it  to  the  ground  ! 

6  Oh,  may  I  live  to  reach  the  place 
Where  he  unveils  his  lovely  face  i 
Where  all  his  beauties  you  behold, 
And  sing  his  name  to  harps  of  gold  !• 


HYMN  LXXXV.     L.  M. 

Faith  in  universal  Salvation    no    inducement^ 
to  iniquity, 

i    /""^  OME,  Limitar'an,  having  faith 
V_y   In  Christ  the  Saviour  of  our  race  ; 
And  tell  me  if  your  faith  in  him 
Induces  you  the  more  to  sin  ? 


HYMNS.  99 

2  Aa  God  has  faith  bestow'd  on  you 
By  which  in  him  a  friend  you  view  ; 
You  have  no  fear  of  endless  woe, 
Bat  unto  heav'n  expect  to  go. 

3  If  God  hatji  you  this  favor  done, 
Why  "  Limit'  Isre'l's  Holy  One  ?" 
If  all  had  faith  as  well  as  you, 
Why  not  as  well  believe  and  do  ? 

4  Has  faith  in  Christ  improv'd  your  soul  ? 
Had  all  then  faith  'twould  mend  the  whole. 
Or  would  you  have  it  understood, 

That  faith  had  all,  'twould  do  none  good  I 

5  You  seem  reluctance  to  betray 

That  all  by  faith  should  Christ  survey  ; 
As  like  a  madman  you  have  rav'd> 
To  hear  it  said  all  will  be  sav'd 

6  The  faith  that  all  as  well  as  I, 
Will  go  thro'  grace  to  bliss  on  high, 
Can  make  me  here  no  worse  behave, 
Than  faith  that  Christ  but  me  will  save, 

7  As  you  believe,  some  go  to  heav'n,     . 
While  some  to  endless  woe  are  driv'a  j 
You  for  the  Lord  your  best  will  do, 
For  partial  favor  shown  to  you. 

$  If,  as  you  say,  you  worse  would  act, 
Did  you,  as  I  do,  view  the  fact  ; 
\'our  words,  tho5  false,  the  want  still  prove 
Of  faith  in  Christ  that  works  by  love. 


100  HYMNS. 

HYMNLXXXVI.    L.  M. 

The  Loving  Kindness  of  the  Lord  Jesua 

AWAKE  my  soul,  in  joyful  lays, 
And  sing  thy  great  Redeemer's  praise 
He  justly  cjaims  a  song  from  me, 
His  loving  kindness,  O  how  free  J 


2  He  saw  me  ruin'd  in  the  fall, 
Yet  lov'd  me  notwithstanding  all ; 
He  sav'd  me  from  my  lost  estate, 
His  loving  kindness,  O  how  great  ! 

3  Tho'  num'rous  hosts  of  mighty  foes, 
Tho'  earth,  and  hell  my  way  oppose, 
He  safely  leads  my  soul  along, 

His  loving  kindness,  O  how  strong  [ 


&  When  trouble,  like  a  gloomy  cloud, 
Has  gather'd  thick,  and  thunder'd  loud3 
He  near  my  soul  has  always  stood  ; 
His  loving  kindness,  O  how  good  1 

5  Soon  shall  I  pass  the  gloomy  vale, 
Soon  all  my  mortal  pow'rs  must  fail  ; 
Oh  !  may  my  last  expiring  breath, 
His  loving  kindness  sing,  in  death. 

6  Then  let  me  mount  and  soar  away, 
To  the  bright  world  of  endless  day  5  ' 
And  sing,  with  rapture  and  surprise, 
His  laying  kindness  in  the  skies. 


HYMNS.  lOi 

HYMN  LXXXVII.  7s . 
Social  and  Divine  Friend 'ship, 

1  \%  THAT  pleasure  can   Friendi 
VV  part, 

What  balm  in  its  virtues  we  find  ! 
What  transport  it  yields  to  the  heart, 
What  joy  and  content  to  the  mind  1 

2  The  traveller  tird  and  forlorn, 

Thro'  desarts  and  wilds  forc'd  to  stray  ; 
For  friendship's  endearments  does  mourn. 
To  comfort  his  desolate  way. 

3  When  sickness  or  trouble  appears, 
And  sorrows  in  showers  descend  ; 
How  soothing  the  pitying  tears, 
That  flow  from  a  kind  loving  friend  ! 

4  No  misery  so  sharp  and  severe, 

But  friendship's  sweet  soothing  can  calm  $, 
Nor  pleasure  so  great  or  so  rare, 
But  friendship  can  heighten  its  charm, 

5  Ye  comfortless  mourners,  attend, 
Your  sorrows  and  weeping  give  o'er. 
Look  up  to  your  heavenly  friend, 
Be  happy  in- him  evermore. 

6  His  friendship  is  firm  as  a  rock, 
Which  nothing  is  able  to  move  ; 
His  mercy  can  suffer  no  shock  ; 

No  bounds  have  his_goodness  and  love, 

The  wretched  and  poor  he  befriends  f 
I  2 


108  HYMNS. 

The  sick  and  distressed  are  his  care  ; 
He  pities  your  grief,  and  descends 
Himself  your  afflictions  to  bear. 

8  "  Come,  lean  on  your  Jesus,"  he  cries, 
"  My  life  for  your  sakes  I  have  giv'n, 
That  you  into  glory  may  rise, 

And  taste  the  enjoyments  of  heav'n, 

9  Rejoice,  ye  dishearten-d,  rejoice  5 
Young,  old,  rich  and  poor,  high  and  low, 
To  Jesus,  your  friend   lift  your  voicf, 

/   Your  praises  on  him  all  bestow." 

]e   foes,    he    then    prov'd    our  true 

nd, 
tich,  for  our  sakes  he  'came  poor  5 
[is  inendohip  to  all  does  extend  ; 
|iis  name  then  we'll  praise  evermore. 


HYMN  LXXXVIII.    L.  U, 

Men  are  apt  to  fcr?n  such  ideas  of  God's  char 
acter^  as  are  analogous  to  those  they    enter* 
tain  of  their  own. 

BY  nature  men  in  gen?ral  think, 
That  God  is  like  unto  themselves  ; 
And  passions  hath  which  rise  and  sink/ 
Like  those  of  mortals  and  of  elves. 

2  Now  they  behold  his  smiling  face, 
As  on  their  goodness  he  looks  down  , 


HYMNS.  108 

Now  in  their  own,  his  thoughts  they  trace, 
And  on  their  vileness  see  him  frown. 

3  As  like  themselves  their  God  appears. 
One  moment  love  the  next  one  hate  5 
So  do  their  mental  hopes  and.  fears 

In  alternation  operate. 

4  As  they  towards  him  feel  dispos'd, 
Whene'er  his  notion  strikes  the  mind ; 
So  God  Howard's  them,  'tis  suppos'd, 
In  correspodence  is  inclin'd. 

3  Thus  do  men's  views  of  Deity, 

False  Mirrors  serve  in  these  respects, 
In  which  they  think  God's  face  they  see, 
When  but  their  own  tl*e  glass  reflects, 


HYMN  LXXXIX,    C.  M. 

"  Oh  I    wretched  man  that  lam;    nvho    shall 
deliver  me  from  the  body  of  this  death  f* 

1  \  WRETCHED  creature,  Lord,    I've 
/V  been, 

E'er  since  I've  drawn  my  breath  ; 
Who  shall  to  me  deliv'rance  bring 
From  this  frail  mass  of  death  ! 

2  I  in  my  members  daily  find 
A  warfare  strong  and  fresh ; 
My  body  wars  against  my  mind  5' 
My  mind,  against  my  flesh* 


/ 


101  HYMNS. 

3  What  oft  as  duty  doth  appeal 
I  would,  but  do  not  do  ; 

What  strikes  my  mind  as  evil  here, 
1  hate,  lust  still  pursue. 

4  When  shall  I  drop  this  mortal  clod^ 
And  have  the  conflict  end  ? 

When  meet  in  heav'n  my  pard'ning  God. 
And  Christ  the  sinner's    friend  ? 


HYMN  XC.     C,  M 

Fountain  opened. 

1  >THHERE  is  a  fountain  fiird  with  blood, 
X     Drawn  from  Immanuel's  veins  ; 
And  sinners  plung'd  beneath  that  flood. 
Lose  all  their  guilty  stains. 


2  The  dying  thief  rejoic'd  to  see 
That  fountain  in  his  day  ; 
O  may  I  there,  tho'  vile  as  he, 

Wash  all  my  sins  a^/ay  1 

S  Dear  dying  Lamb,  thy  precious  blood 
Shall  never  lose  its  pow'r, 
Till  all  the  ransom'd  church  of  God 
Be  sav'd,  to  sin  no  more, 

-b  E'er  since,  by  faith,  I  saw  the  stream, 
Thy  flowing  pounds  supply, 
Redeeming  love  has  been  wy  theme, 
And  shall  be  dl!  .  dte. 


HYMNS.  105 

5  But  when  this  lisping,   stamm'ring  tongue 
Lies  silent  in  the  grave, 
Then  in  a  nobler,  sweeter  sotig 
I'll  sing  thy  power  to  save. 


HYMN  XCI.    L.  M. 

The  belief  in  the  Universality  of  God?s  love 
to  man,  has  no  tendency  to  licentiousness, 

1  TTOW  many  whom  we  christians  ca!2j 
JL  JL  Have  said,  <«  If  I  by  faith  did  know, 
That  Jesus  Christ  would  save  us  all, 

My  feet  should  swift  to  evil  go  1" 

2  The  declaration  is  not  true, 

Tho'  coming  from  a  christian  tongue  ; 
Of  which,  if  proof  I  do  not  shew, 
The  lie  may  in  my  face  be  flung, 

3  Does  faith  entice  a  man  to  sin  ? 
Does  love  create  an  evil  mind  ? 
Does  purity  make  him  unclean  ? 

j|  Or  charity  make  him  unkind  ? 

4>  It  never  did,  nor  ever  shall  ; 
For  well  I  know  it  never  can ; 
And  if  you  read  the  scriptures  yrpll, 
You'll  find  the  whole  denies  the  plane 

5  'Tis  faith  that  makes  him  sick  of  sin ; 
'Tis  love  that  makes  a  quiet  mind  l; 
'Tis  purity  that  makes  him  clean, 
And  charity  that  makes  him  kind 


106  HYMNS, 

6  The  man  that  doth  true  faith  posse**, 
Does  all  these  virtues  entertain 
And  they  betray  their  emptiness, 
Who  thus  against  the  truth  exclaim. 


HYMN  XC1I.    C.  M. 

4dam  a  Figure  of  Christ  ;  or  the  equality  of. 
the  Tyfie  and  Antitxjfie. 

1  TF  Adam  was  a  type  of  Christ, 
1  As  often  has  been  said  ; 

In  him  as  many  then  have  life, 
As  are  in  Adam  dead. 

2  A  perfect  vessel  and  its  mould 
Most  jointly  do  agree  ; 

The  type  and  antitype  thus  hol4 
A  full  equality. 

3  ?Tis  worse  than  folly  to  pretend, 
He  was  a  type  of  him, 
Unless  the  ransom  doth  extend 
To  each  man  as  his  limb. 

4  Adam  the  type,  in  ruin  hurl'd — 
Contained  all  our  host ; 

The  antitype  redeem'd  the  work!, 
And  sav'd  alf'that  h<?  tost. 


Hymn  So  10? 

Hymn  xciii.  c.  m. 

*jts  God  the  author  of  sin?  "Is  there  evil  in  Che 
city  and  the  Lord  hath  not  dons  it?'9 

1  TF  God  the  author  be  of  sin, 
X  As  many  think  the  case  ; 
Can  he  abhor  the  evi]   thing, 
Done  by  the  human  race  ? 

2  If  sin  from  God  himself  proceed, 
It  then  must  be  his  work  ; 

This  inPrance  then  is  true  indeed— 
It  does  the  Lord  no  hurt, 
s 

3  If  sin  were  form'd  by  Deity, 
How  can  it  then  be  bad  ? 

If  'tis  his  work  in  verity, 
Cr.rj  evil  make  him  mad  ? 

4  If  sin  proceed  from  Pow'r  supreme 
Can  sin  his  wrath  excite  ? 

If  as  his  work  the  thing  is  seen, 
Why  then  is  not  sin  right  ? 

5  If  God  himself  to  sin  gave  birth, 
Why  not  approve  the  thing  ? 
Why  sent  he  then  his  Son  on  earth 
To  make  an  end  of  sin  ? 

6  Did  God  repent  that  sin  he  made, 
As  answ'ring  not  the  end  ; 

Then  Jesus  Christ,  his  cause  to  aid) 
For  its  destruction  send  ? 

7  Wp  atSsWCT  No,  with  gooi  intent, 


10$  HYMNS. 

And  give  our  reasons  too  ; 

God  of  his  work  can  never  repent  ; 

3Tis  perfect,  just  and  true. 

2  Sin  is  an  ill  by  God  design'd 
To  pave  the  way  for  grace  ; 
For  had  it  been  against  his  mind, 
It  ne'er  had  taken  place. 

9  Sin  is  a  temporary  thing  ; 
Through  life  it  makes  us  sigh  : 

Thank  God,  through  Christ,  who  kills    Its 

sting, 
It  quits  us  when  we  die. 

10  These  questions  will  be  ask'd  most   free 
Upon  the  death  of  sin — 

«  Q  Grave,  where  is  thy  victory  ? 
O  Peath,  where  is  thy  sting  ?*' 


HYMN  XCIV.     8s.  k  9s. 
Invitation  to  come  to  Christ. 

1  /"\H  all  ye  hungry,  thirsty  souls, 
V.  J  My  bowels  of  compassion  rolls  \ 
When  I  was  veil'd  in  human  nature, 
I  tasted  death  for  ev-ry  creature. 

2  Come,  aged  sinner,  prone  to  vice, 
Buy  without  money,  without  price  ; 
I've  oil  and  wine  to  cheer  each  feature 
I  tasted  death  for  ev'ry  creature. 


HYMNS.  100 

$  Come,  middle  aged,  here  you'll  view. 
My  love  and  mercy  reach'd  to  you ; 
My  wine  is  heav'n,  none  can  be  sweeter, 
I  died  to  ransom  ev'ry  creature. 

4  Come,  youth  this  is  your  time  to  join, 
And  fall  in  love  with  heav'n's  design  ; 
I   paid  a  debt  none  could  be  greater, 
I  tasted  death  for  ev'ry  creature. 

5  Come,  lovely  infant  come  to  me, 

I  thought  of  you,  when  on  the  tree  ; 
My  robe  is  white,  none  can  be  neater, 
And  heav'n  is  sure  for  ev'ry  creature. 


HYMN  XCV,     L.  M. 

God  Omnipotent  and  Omni  fire  sent ;  and  man 
answers  the  end  of  his  creation, 

IAS  God  is  potent,  wise  and  just, 
J\,  And  fills  immensity  of  space, 
He  had  in  view  some  end,  we  trust, 
To  be  performed  by  Adam's  race. 

2  As  God  is  present  ev'ry  whore, 
Upholding  all  the  human  kind, 
He  by  his  wisdom,  pow'r  and  care, 
Will  make  them  do  the  end  design'd. 

3  As  God  who  form'd  the  race  of  man, 
Can  undergo  no  change  of  mind  j 
His  pow'r  on  wisdom's  perfect  plan, 
Performs  the  end  he  first  design'd. 


110  HYMKS. 

4  As  God  created  by  his  might, 
The  human  race  to  do  his  will  ; 
So  he  exerts  his  pow'r  and  right, 
To  make  them  all  the  end  fulfil. 

5  As  God  for  something  form'd  our  race. 
Each  must  his  given  part  complete  ; 
If  otherwise  should  prove  the  case, 
The  Maker  by  his  work  were  beat. 


Hymn  xcvi.  c.  m. 

Pure  and  undefiled  Religion. 

1  "Q  ELIGION  pure  and  undenl'd 
IV  Before  the  Great  I  AM, 

Is  this — to  visit  sorrow's  child, 
And  help  him  when  we  can. 

2  If  pure  religion  we  possess, 
We  then  shall  visit  here, 
The  widow  and  the  fatherless, 
And  be  their  friends  sincere. 

3  If  now  we  know  where  such  ones  live, 
O'erwhelm'd  with  want  and  pain  ; 
We  there  must  go,  and  succor  give, 
If  we  can  do  the  same. 

4  Where'er  affliction's  subject  lies 
Upou  the  bed  of  woe, 

We  must  repair  with  pitying  eyes, 
And  needed  kindness  show. 


HYMNS.  Hi 

Favors  like  these  to  wretches  giv'n 
To  ease  affliction's  smart ; 
The  sweetest  off 'rings  are  to  heav'n, 
Which  mortals  can  impart. 


HYMN  XCVII.    C.  M* 

Be  ye    clothed,    warmed   &  fed  ;  and  go  ye 
your   way  in  peace. 

1  1    TOW  many  christians  of  the  day 
JTjL  Whom  God  with  wealth  has  blest, 
Unwilling  are  to  give  away 

The  smallest  thing  possess'd  ! 

2  Resolv'd  their  Babel  high  to  build, 
They  to  the  poor  declare — 

You  will  be  cloth'd  and  warm'd  and  fill'd* 
Though  I  can  nothing  spare. 

3  Thus  empty  are  the  poor  dismiss'd, 
To  go  in  peace  from  them  ; 

Lest  they,  if  succorVl  by  a  gift, 
Should  come  for  help  again. 

4  Do  such  obey  the  Lord's  command, 
Who  fills  with  good  their  store, 
While  they  forbear  with  lib'ralhand' 
To  help  the  suflf'ring  poor  ? 


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Request  their  prayers  and  good  advice, 
And  these  the  poor  obtain  ; 
As  their,  religion's  less  of  price, 
Than  fay'rite  worldly  gain. 


IIS  HYMNS. 

HYMN  XCVHI.    L.  M. 

Before  Prayer. 

1  TT\EAR  Shepherd,   see  thy  flock   hcne 

I  3        met, 

Before  thy  pierced  feet  to  bow ; 
To  praise  thy  wounds,  thy  blood  and  sweat, 
Thro'  which  eternal  love  did  flow. 

2  Thou  art  with  us  where'er  we  meet  ; 
Nor  wilt  thou  leave  us,  holy  Lamb : 
We  find  a  calm,  a  safe  retreat 
Beneath  the  cov'ring  of  thy  name. 

5  Great  mercies  thou  to  us  hast  shewn, 
Since  first  we  knew  that  we  were  thine  .' 
Since  first  thou  mark'd  us  for  thy  own, 
With  grace  and  righteousness  divine. 

4  Seal'd  for  thine  own,  we  surely  are  ; 
Thy  spirit,  Lord,  our  witness  is  : 
Nor  can  we  fall  from  Jesus  far, 
Tor  he  is  lore  and  tenderness. 

5  There's  none  can  pluck  us  from  hi«  hand*. 
Inclos'd  by  grace  on  ev'ry  side  • 

His  oath,  his  promise  firmly  stand, 
We  ever  shall  with  him  abide  ! 

6  He  never  will  himself  deny  ; 
Nor  could  he  die  for  man  in  vain  : 
How  then  shall  God  in  wrath  destroy, 
The  souls  for  whom  the  Lamb  was  slain. 


HYMNS.  113 

HYMNXCXIX.    CM, 

The  im/iortance  of  faith  in  divine  Revelation  ; 
as  it  ofiens  the  only  sure  firosfiect  of  immor- 
tality, 

i   T  TOW  many  persons  now  profess 
XjL  (Of  talents  small  and  great) 
That  real  knowledge  they  possess, 
About  a  future  state. 

2  Now  by  what  means  can  Adam's  race 
Know  any  future  thing, 

The  like  of  which  is  in  no  place, 
Where  fLsh  and  blood  has  been  ? 

3  Who  knows,  while  here,  there  isaheav'n, 
Or  God  our  souls  to  save  ? 

Or  that  to  men  life  will  be  giv'n 
Beyond  the  silent  grave  ? 

4  All  knowledge,  on  so  dark  a  theme  • 
By  mortals  here  possess'd, 

Is  (strictly  speaking)  but  a  dream- 
On  what  then  do  we  rest  ? 

5  Faith  is  the  only  evidence 

Of  heav'n  for  which  we  hope  ; 

We  draw  of  life  our  prospect  thence. 

When  life's  frail  cord  is  broke. 

6  We  only  in  the  Scriptures  see 
Good  grounds  for  hope  arid  faith  : 
That  Life  and  Immortality 
Await  our  dying  race. 

K  2 


114  HYMNS. 

7  We  bless  thee,  Lord,  for  this  rich  gifSfe 
And  faith  its  truth  to  see- 
That  we  in  glory  shall  exist, 
Eternally,  with  thee. 


HYMN  C.    S.  MX 

Rock. 

1  "1  XTHILST  we  are  marching  through 

V  V    This  land  with  drought  accurs'd  ^ 
Rivers  of  living  waters  flow 
In  thee,  to  quench  our  thirst* 

2  This  world's  a  weary  land  ; 
By  sin  a  desart  made  : 

?Tis  all  around  a  burning  strand  $ 
Has  no  refreshing  shade. 

3^  But  thou'rt  our  mighty  rock  ; 
Thy  shadow  very  great ; 
"Where  all  thy  weary  pilgrim  flock. 
Find  a  divine  retreat. 

4  Though  once  with  sin  oppress'd 
From  which  no  part  was  free  ; 
Our  grievances  are  now  redress'd, 
Dear,  glorious  man,  in  thee. 

5  In  thee  we  now  have  found 
Whatever  we  lost  and  more ; 

We  see  thy  grace  much  more  abound* 
Than  sin  had  done  before. 


HYMNS.  115 


5  Thy  praise  be  our  employ  ; 
Thy  glories  ever  shine  : 
All  our  salvation,  hope  and  joy 
Art  thou,  O  man,  divine. 


HYMN  CI.    C.  M. 

Mea$oji8  assigned  for  the  love  of  life  and  dread 
of  death. 

1  npHANKLESS  for  favors  from  on  high, 

JL     Man  thinks  he  fades  too  soon  : 
Though  'tis  his  privilege  to  die, 
Would  he  improve  the  boon, 

2  But  he,  not  wise  enough  to  scan 
His  best  concerns  aright, 

Would  gladly  stretch  life's  little  span, 
Tq  ages,  if  he  might. 

3  To  ages,  in  a  world  of  pain, 
To  ages,  where  he  goes, 
Gall'd  by  affliction's  heavy  chain, 
And  hopeless  of  reposei. 

4  Strange  fondness  of  the  human  heart, 
Enamor'd  of  its  harm  ! 

Strange  world,  that  costs  it  so  much  smarts 
And  still  has  pow'r  to  charm. 

5  Whence  has  the  world  her  magic  pow'r  £ 
Why  deem  we  death  a  foe  ? 

Recoil  from  weary  life's  best  hour. 
And  covet  longer  woe  I 


4,16  HYMNS. 

6  The  cause  is  Conscience — Conscience  oft 
Her  tale  of  guilt  renews  : 

Her  voice  is  terrible,  though  soft, 
And  dread  of  death  ensues. 

7  Then  anxious  to  be  longer  spar'd, 
Man  mourns  his  fleeting  breath  : 
All  evils  then  seem  light,  compar'd 
With  the  approach  of  Death. 

8  'Tis  judgment   shakes   him ;    there's  the 

fear 
That  prompts  his  wish  to  stay  : 
He  has  incurr'd  a  long  arrear, 
And  must  despair  to  pay. 

9  Pay  ! — Jesus  all  the  bill  has  paid  ; 
His  death  your  peace  ensures  : 
Think  on  the  grave,  where  he  was  laid, 
And  calm  descend  to  yours. 


HYMN  CII.    L.  M. 

The  covering  cast  over  all  nations^  the  only 
cause  ivhy  all  do  not  believe  iny  and  receive 
Christ. 

1  rTHHE  only  cause  to  which  we  trace 

JL    The  condemnation  of  each  soul, 
Is  unbelief  in  God's  free  grace, 
Which  sent  his  son  to  save  the  whole. 

2  Men's  condemnation,  as  we  read, 
Is  their  refusal  to  embrace 


HYMNS.  1 17 

The  light  which  does  from  God  proceed, 
In  Christ  the  Saviour  of  our  race. 

3  Their  minds  in  darkness  being  hurfd, 
By  sin  which  intercepts  the  light, 
See  not  the  Saviour  of  the  world, 
And  consequently  group  in  night. 

4  Darkness  has  overspread  the  earth  ; 
A  cov'ring's  cast  o'er  all  mankind  : 
But  God  who  gave  their  spirits  birth, 
Thro'  Jesus  can  illume  the  mind. 

5  As  all  acquire  Salvation's  hope, 
When  in  Immanuel  they  believe  ; 
So  condemnation's  chain  is  broke, 
When  they,  by  faith,  this  light  receive. 

6  Jesus,  the  Sun  of  Righteousness, 
Who  for  the  world  his  life  has  giv'n, 
Must  ev'ry  human  soul  possess, 
Prepare  and  take  it  home  to  heav'n. 


HYMN  CIII.     L.  M. 

The  Hope  which  is  the  anchor  cj  ill?  soul. 

I   S~\  GOD,  my  Sun,  thy  blissful  r. 
V_>/  Irradiate,  warm,  and  guide  i    , 
How  dark,  how  mournful  are  my 
If  thy  enliv'ning  beams  depart  ! 

S  Scarce  thro'  the  shades,  a  glimpse  of  day. 
Appears  to  these  desiring  eyes  I 


418  hymns. 

But  shall  my  drooping  spirit  s?y, 
The  cheerful  morn  will  never  rise  ? 

5  O  let  me  not  despairing  mourn, 

Tho'  gloomy  darkness  spreads  the  sky  J 
My  glorious  sun  will  yet  return, 
And  night  with  all  its  horrors  fly. 

4  O  for  the  bright,  the  joyful  day, 
When  hope  shall  in  assurance  die ! 
So  tapers  lose  their  feeble  ray, 
Beneath  the  sun's  refulgent  eye. 


HYMN  CIV.     C.  M. 

The  hafifdness  of  living  in  the  Gosjielday.—. 
Matt.  xiii.   17. 

1  "OLEST  are  the  eyes  that  see  the  sight, 
J3  And  ears,  that  hear  the  sound, 
Which  put  tiieir  slavish  fears  to  flight, 
And  make  their  joys  abound. 

2  Prophets  and  pious  men  desir'd 
To  see  what  we  survey  ; 

But  they  without  the  sight  expired, 
And  went  to  realms  of  day. 

3  Great  God  1  we  thank  thy  mighty  name, 
And  thy  redeeming  hands, 

Which  have  displayed  the  Gospel  plain 
In  these  our  desart  lands. 

4  The  types  and  shades  away  are  done, 


HYMNS.  119 

The  antitype  appears ; 

Salvation's  news  from  Jesus'  tongue, 

The  dying  sinner  hears. 

5  With  Gospel  doctrines  we  are  blest, 
Which  make  our  joys  abound  ; 
As  they  insure  eternal  rest 
For  all  the  earth  around. 


HYMN  CV.    C.  M. 

God  forms  no  souls  for   endless  misertj  ;    de- 
cause  ."  God  is  love.'* 

WHAT  if  Jehovah  has  a  right, 
As  many  christians  say. 
To  form  some  souls  for  endless  night, 
And  some  for  heavenly  day  ? 

2  Are  we  on  this  account  to  think, 
The  God  of  love  is  diiv'n 

A  part  in  endless  woe  to  sink, 
And  raise  the  rest  to  heav'n  ? 

3  Though  God  enjoys  the  sov'reign  right 
His  pleasure  to  fulfil  ; 

He  but  employs  his  sov'reign  might 
,     To  do  of -love  the  will. 

4  In  acting  out  his  pleasure  good, 
Towards  the  human  kind, 

His  nature  must  be  understood 
The  motive  of  his  mind. 


120  HYMNS. 

5  The  nature  of  the  sovereign  Lord, 
Who  acts  on  wisdom*s  plan, 

Is  love,  according  to  his  word, 
Which  makes  him  known  to  man. 

6  Then  cease  to  think,  the  God  of  love. 
From  whom  all  spirits  flow, 
Intends  a  part  for  heav'n  above, 

And  part  for  heil  below. 


HYMN  CVI.    L.  M. 

The  Lord  our  Righteousness. 

1  TESUS,  thy  blood  and  righteousness 
«J    My  beauty  are,  my  glorious  dress  ; 
'Midst  flaming  worlds,  in  these  array'd, 
With  joy,  shall  I  lift  up  my  head. 

2  When  from  the  dust  of  death  I  rise, 
To  claim  my  mansion  in  the  skies  ; 
E'en  then  shall  this  be  all  my  plea:, 
44  Jesus  hath  liv'd,  hath  di'd  for  me/' 

3  Bold  shall  I  stand  in  that  great  day  : 
For  to  my  charge  who  ought  shall  lay  1 
Fully  through  these  absolv'd  I  am 
From  sin  and  fear,  from  guilt  and  shame « 

4  Thus  Abraham  the  friend  of  God, 
Thus  all  the  armies  bought  with  blood. 
Saviour  of  sinners  thee  proclaim  ; 
Sinners,  of  whom,  the  chief  1  am.- 


HYMNS,  i%i 

5  This  spotle33  robe  the  same  appears, 
When  ruin'd  nature  sinks  in  years ; 
No  age  can  change  its  glorious  hue, 
The  grace  of  Christ  is  erer  new. 


HYMN  CVII.    C.  M, 

The  salvation  of  Adam  a  fdedge  of  the  salva- 
tion of  his  fiosterity. 

1  rw^HAT  our  first  parents  sinn'd  and  fell, 

l     All  christians  do  believe  ; 
And  that  they  now  in  heaven  dwell, 
They  do  as  truth  receive. 

2  If  our  first  parents  arc  in  heay'ri 
Eternally  to  dwell  ; 

Will  any  of  their  heirs  be  driv'n 
To  never  ending  hell  ? 

3  If  they  who  first  transgress'd  the  law 
Have  been  by  God  forgiv'n  ; 

May  not  Jehovah's  grace  then  draw 
His  children  all  to  heav'n  I 

4  If  on  his  race  he  brought  the  curse 
By  his  primeval  fall  ; 

Shall  we,,  than  he  did,  suffer  worse  ? 
As  "  God  is  good  to  all." 

5  If  all  his  vast  posterity 

On  his  account  were  curst ; 
As  he  obtained  felicity, 
So  all  his  children  must. 
L 


1SS  HYMNS, 

HYMN  CVIII.     S.  |£ 

The  vanity  of  works  to  justify  us  in  the  sigJa 
of  Gody  or  procure  heaven, 

1  TTOW  many  do  profess, 
JLjL  To  know  the  Son  of  God ; 
And  yet  deny  his  righteousness, 

And  merits  of  his  blood  ! 

2  From  a  deluded  heart, 

Absurdly  they  protest, 
That  Jesus  Christ  will  do  but  part, 
And  men  must  do  the  rest. 

3  They  say  that  Christ  the  Lamb, 

Has  ransom'd  all  mankind  ; 
Yet  we  must  work  and  buy  the  same, 
Or.no  salvation  find. 

4,  Unless  we  work,  they  say, 
We  must  of  life  despair  ; 
And  if  we  labor  all  the  day, 
There  is  no  merit  there. 

5  When  we  do  well,  they  say, 

The  Lord  is  pleas'd  and  glad ; 
And  when  from  duty's  path  we  stray? 
He's  sorry,  wroth,  and  mad. 

5  Alas  !  how  indiscreet, 

And  tiresome  is  their  way  ! 
The  God  they  serve  is  incomplete, 
And  changeable  as  they  I 

?  Great  God,  display  thy  Son 


HYMNS.  i%i 

By  sinners  thus  deny'd  ; 
To  feel  his  merits  let  them  come^ 
And  lay  their  own  aside. 


HYMN  CIX.    L.  M. 

*'  In  keeping  God^s  commands  there  is  great 
reward." 

I  TN  keeping  God's  commands,  we  find, 
X  There's    great    reward,    or  peace    of 

mind  ; 
Which  is  a  compensation  true, 
For  all  good  actions  which  we  do. 

3  In  doing  what  our  Lord  commands 
Prompt  pay  is  put  into  our  hands; 
The  recompense  of  which  must  spring 
From  the  performance  of  the  thing. 

3  The  pay's  in  full  of  all  demands 
For  each  good  action  of  our  hands  ; 
And  no  good  act  of  sage  or  dunce, 
Can  pay  in  full  demands  but  once. 

4  In  error  then,  his  mind  is  hurl'd, 
Who  pay  expects  in  th'  other  world; 
For  any  goodness  here  display'd, 
As  he  already  has  been  paid. 

•6  Who,  having  thus  been  paid  in  hand 
For  duties  done,  dare  more  demand  ? 
Then  ask  not  pay  a  second  time, 
Since  all  the  profit,  man,  is  thine.. 


12%  HYMXS, 

HYMN  CX.    C.  M. 

Omnifioicncc  and   Omni/iresence  of  GVrf,  Ifc. 

1  TNFINITE  Pow'ri  amating  thought! 
X  Which  none  can  comprehend ; 
Into  existence  never  brought, 

And  ne'er  can  have  an  end  I 

2  Nor  time,  nor  place  can  circumscribe 

This  Pow'r  supreme  and  free  ; 
The  God  in  whom  this  pow'r  resides, 
Must  omnipresent  be  !        * 

3  He  doth  not  move  from  place  to  place. 

He  being  ev'ry  where, 
In  the  same  instant  in  all  space, 
To  make  the  whole  his  care. 

4  But  though  he  occupies  of  right 

Immensity    of  space  5 
He  doth  not  operate  alike 
In  ev'ry  time  and  place. 

5  Here  peace  and  plenty  he  distils* 

The  sons  of  men  to  bless  5 
There  penury  and  mental  ills, 
And  bodily  distress. 

£  Here  zephyrs  breathe  and  boreas  sleep, 
Or  calmness  crowns  the  day; 
There  tempests  hurl  or  earthquakes  sweep 
Thousands  of  lives  away. 


All  these,  Almighty  Pow'r  performs, 
At  wisdom's  vast  control  ; 


HYMNS.  ±25 

^Amidst  the  calms,  amidst  the  storms, 
Adore  him,  O  my  soul ! 


HYMN  CXI.     C.  M. 

Where    sin  abounded,  grace  did    much  mere 
abound. — Rom.  v.  20. 

t  T7C7*^  *n  tne  sacrec'  volume  find, 
V  V     As  o'er  the  word  we  pore— 
"  Where  sin  abounded"  in  mankind, 
"  Grace  did  abound  much  more." 

2  As  sin  abounds  through  Adam's  tribe 
By  reason  of  the  fall ; 
And  grace  than  sin  extends  more  wide* 
So  grace  embraces  all. 

~3  (As  sin  is  found  in  all  mankind, 

Of  which    we  proof  might  bring; 
If  grace  were  to  a  Jiart  confin'd, 
Then  grace  were  less  than  sin.) 

4  Wide  as  the  wound  which  sin  has  made 

Upon  the  human  race; 
Our  souls'  Physician  on  has  laid 
The  balm  of  healing  grace. 

5  If  equal  to  the  moral  wound,. 

Which  all  for  sin  endure, 
The  application  shall  be  found, 
They  have  salvation  sure. 
L  ? 


1"S8  HYMNS. 

IlYMN  CX1I.    C.  M. 

Jesus'  firayers  and  tears  only  have  effect  itiit-k. 
God, 

1  9   'pJS  not  of  him  who  weeps  and  prays; 

•      The  gift  of  God  is  free ; 
'Tis  Jesus'  pray'r.  his  groans  and  cries, 
Which  shall  accepted  be. 

2  ?Tis  through  his  death,  and  offering  up 

On  the  accursed  wood, 
That  we  are  privileg'd  to  sup 
With  him,  the  Son  of  God. 

3  'Tis  through  his  resurrection  pow'r, 

We  live  the  life  of  faith ; 
In  his  dear  body,  we  are  more 
Than  conqu'rors  over  death? 

4  When  he  ascended  up  on  high, 

Lo  !  we  ascended  then ; 
He  captive  led  captivity, 
Receiving  gifts  from  men  i 

5  Yes,  for  rebellious  men  he  su'd, 

That  God  with  them  might  dwell : 
And  when  his  wounded  form  he  shew'd. 
The  spirit  on  them  fell. 

6  AH  praise  to  hi  m,  our  heav'nly  friend. 
Who  finish'd  ail  for  us  • 
We  bless  the  love,  which  hath  no  encl: 
Revealed  on  the  cross. 


HYMNS,  187 

HYMN  CX11L     C.  M. 

,i  i'78lon,  of  the  kingdom  of  Christ  among  men, 
Rev.  xxi.  1,2.  3,  4. 

1  % '    O,  what  a  glorious  sight  appears 
1   A  To  our  believing  eyes  1 

The  earth  and  seas  are  pass-d  away, 
And  the  old  rolling  skies. 

2  From  the  third  heav'n  where  God  resides. 

That  holy,  happy  place, 
The  JVeiv-Je7'usalem  comes  down 
Adorn'd  with  shining  grace. 

3  Attending  angels  shout  for  joy, 

And  the  bright  armies  sing, 

**  Mortals  behold  the  sacred  seal 

Of  your  descending  King, 

4  M  The  God  of  glory  down  to  men 

Removes  his  blest  abode  ; 
Men,  the  dear  objects  of  his  grace, 
And  he  the   loving  God. 

5  .**  His  own  soft  hand  shall  wipe  the  tears 

From  ev'ry  weeping  eye, 
And  pains,  and  groans,  and  griefs,  and  fears, 
And  death  itself  shall  die." 

6  How  long,  dear  Saviour,  O  !  how  long 

Shall  this  bright  hour  delay  ? 
Fly  swifter  round,  ye  wheels  of  time. 
And  bring  the  welcome  day. 


128  HYMNS. 

HYMN  CXIV.     S.  M 

The  Fruits  and   Benefits  of  Christ*s  Suffer 
lugs.  Death  and  Resurrection. 

1  T    ET  ev'ry  soul  awake, — 

I  4  Why  silent  keep  so  long  ? 
Sing  to  the  Lord,  for  mercy's  sakCj 
And  Jesus  be  your  song. 

2  His  heart  was  broke  with  pains  ; 

He  yielded  up  his  breath  ; 
Ol  blood  were  empty'd  all  his  veins, 
To  ransom  all  from  death. 

3  But  he  was  rais'd  again, 

Where  endless  pleasures  roll, 
To  see  the  fruits  of  all  his  pain, 
And  travel  of  his  soul. 

4  The  fruits  of  all  his  pain 

Is  Paradise  restor'd  ; 
And  all  the  nations  rais'd  again. 
To  dwell  with  him  their  Lord, 

5  On  Sion*s  holy  hill, 

Where  boundless  pleasure  rolls, 
He  will  with  endless  blessings  fill 
Our  never  dying  souls. 

6  There  we  shall  dwell  at  rest, 

Where  no  disturbers  come  ; 
Drink  endless  pleasures  from  his  breast. 
At  one  eternal  home. 

7  There  all  the  ransom'd  throng; 


HYMN  So  189 

Shall  magnify  his  name  ; 
To  endless  years  repeat  the  song 
Of  Moses  and  the  Lamb. 

8  From  doubtful  thoughts  refrain, 

And  throw  your  fears  away  ; 
Wait  for  the  Lord,  he'll  come  again, 
Nor  will  he  long  delay. 

9  He'll  raise  his  royal  queen, 

And  set  her  on  bis  throne ; 
Dress  her  in  garments  white  and  cleaiv, 
Immortal  as  his  own. 


HYMN  CXV.    L.  M. 

The  vanity  of  expecting  salvation^  partly  by 
cur  own  works  and  partly  by  grace. 

1  TTOW  weak  are  mortals  and  how  vain, 
J_  JL  Who  think   that   they  by  works  can 

gain 
The  title  to  eternal  life 
With  little  help  from  Jesus  Christ  I 

2  Though  they  will  modestly  deny, 
That  working  will  salvation  buy  ; 
They  hold  that  all  to  hell  are  driv'n, 
Who  work  their  passage  not  to  heavfE». 

3  They  say  they  first  must  set  about 
Their  soul's  salvation,  past  a  doubt ; 
And  then  the  Saviour  will,  at  list, 
A  hand  afford,  and  them  assist. 


1-5k3  HYMNS. 

4  If  Jesus  cannot  grace  imparti 

Till  men  for  grace  prepare  the  heart; 
He's  then  indebted  to  our  race 
For  chances  to  display  his  grace. 

5  If  in  salvation  men  do  part 
By  preparation  of  the  heart, 

Their    hearts    with    pride  have   cause  to 

swell, 
Who  thus  by  works  escape  from  hell  ! 

6  Men  who  possess,  at  will,  the  pow'r 
To  mend  their  hearts  at  any  hour, 
Will  have  less  cause  to  sing  above 
Redeeming  grace  and  dying  love  ! 


HYMN  CXVI.     H.  M. 

Liberty  of  Conscience  restored  by  the  GosfieC 

1  O  INCE  in  the  present  day 
£3   The  Gospel's  growing  light 
Has  chas'd  the  mists  away, 
Which  held  the  mind  in  night  ; 
The  civil  law  No  longer  holds 
In  slavish  awe  Religious  souls. 

2  Once  Persecution  great, 
Supported  by  the  law, 
Burn'd  thousands  at  the  stake, 
It  could  not  overawe. 

The  dawn  of  light  Those  souls  obey'd^ 
Whom  legal  might  Its  martyrs  made* 


HYMNS.  131 

j'Now  in  each  christian  land, 
Where  Gospel  truths  succeed, 
Each  serves  the  Great  I  AM, 
As  light  and  conscience  lead  ; 
And  free  from  dread  In  their  own  way 
To  Christ  their  head  Their  homage  pat. 

4  But  Persecution  still 

Shows  now  and  then  her  sprite  ; 

She's  less   her  pow'r  to  kill, 

But  not  her  will  to  strike  : 

She  views  as  bad  The  laws  of  ours, 

Which  make  her  sad  And  quell  herpow'is, 

5  The  Gospel's  spreading  light, 
Descending  from  above, 
Shall  do  away  her  spite, 

And  change  her  hate  to  love  ; 
Then  shall  our  race  On  wisdom's  scheme. 
Make  God's   free   grace  Their  trust    and 
theme. 

6  For  present  liberty 

To  worship  as  we  please, 

We  bless  the  Deity, 

Who  rules  by  wise  decrees  : 

Soon  may  we  all,  With  one  accord, 

Join  heart  and  mind  To  praise  the  Lord. 

HYMN  CXV1I.    L.  M. 

The  do%vnfaU  of  Satan" s  Kingdom^  by  the  agert' 
cy  of  the  Saviour  of  the  world. 


O  T 


INCE  all  the  scriptures  plainly  sljow, 
hat  Jesus  is  the  devil's  foe  ; 


18&  HYMNS. 

It  were  blasphemy  to  pretend, 
That  they  each  other  can  befriend. 

2  As  they  must  always  foes  remain, 
No  end  with  them  can  be  the  same  ; 
To  different  objects  they,  of  course, 
As  enemies  direct  their  force. 

3  As  Jesus  wills  that  all  mankind 
In  him  salvation  pure  shall  find  ; 
So  Satan  wills  on  th*  other  side 
Damnation  endless  on  our  tribe. 

4  As  Jesus  aims  to  save  the  whole, 
And  Satan  tries  to  hold  each  soul  ; 
One  or  the  other  must,  by  force, 
Get  beat  and  lose  the  day,  of  course. 

5  Since  Christ  the  Saviour  of  the  world 
Salvation's  banner  has  unfurld  ; 

He  'round  the  same,  by  God's  free  grace, 
Will  gather  all  the  human  race. 

6  Then  shall  the  devil's  kingdom  fall, 
And  God  himself  be  All  in  all  -T 
Sin,  death  and  pain  thus  o'er 

All  souls  as  one  will  God  adore. 


w 


HYMN'  CXVIII.    C.  U. 

Volume  of  .Yature. 

FIAT  blush  of  beauties  man  beholds 
In  nature's  volume  clear  \ 


HYMNS.  i'aft 

Which  leaf  by  leaf  itself  unfolds, 
To  serve  and  please  him  here, 

2  The  various  colors  of  the  page 
A  banquet  give  the  eye, 

While  reason's  labors  they  engage^ 
And  fancy's  good  supply. 

3  The  fragrance  of  the  lily  white, 
And  rose  with  blushes  red, 
Imparts  the  sense  of  smell  delight, 
,A.nd  solace  gives  his  head. 

4  The  music  of  the  feather'd  tribes, 
Which  flows  when  nature  cheers  ; 
With  entertainment  him  provides. 
And  charms  his  listening  cars. 

*>  From  useful  objects  understood) 
Which  daily  him  surround  ; 
Sensations  and  reflections  good> 
In  heart  and  mind  abound. 

6  To  God  our  love  and  thanks  are  due 
For  things  of  sense  and  time  ; 

Yet  these  we  minor  favors  view, 
Compared  to  things  divine. 

7  Lord,  while  we  here  enjoy  the  good, 
Our  mortal  bodies  need  ; 

Give  each  a  foretaste  of  that  food, 
On  which  thy  angels  feed. 

M 


131  HYMNS. 

HYMN  CXIX.    L.  M. 

The  ojifiosition  of  sin  to    eternal    holiness,  n'o 
evidence  that  sin  ivill  eternally  exist, 

1  TT7HAT  tho'  this  truth  we  all    confess 

^  V      That  sin's  oppos'd  to  holiness  ? 
Shall  any  thence  conclude  and  say, 
B^cth  must  endure,  or  both  decay  ? 

2  To  argue  thus  admits  that  sin, 
Like  holiness,  did  ne'er  begin  ; 
Which  must  be  wrong,  we  all  agree  $ 
As  sin,  in  time,  began  to  be. 

3  If  sin  itself  had  ne'er  begun, 
ft  to  an  end  could  never  come  ; 
As  in  that  case,  like  holiness, 

It  deathless  nature  would  possess. 

4  Since  sin,  as  christians  all  agree, 
Like  moral  death,  began  to  be  ; 

So  in  God's  time,  'twill  cease  to  reign, 
And  holiness  alone  remain. 

5  Thus  sin  thro'  God?s  domain  shall  cease, 
And  sinners  all  with  him  have  peace  ; 
Then  all  the  ransom'd  of  the  Lord 
Shall  praise  his  name  with  one  accord. 


HYMN  CXX.     7s. 

For  Thanksgiving. 

1    (^  RATEFUL  songs  and  anthems  bring 
VJT  Unto  Christ,  and  God  our  King ; 


HYMNS.  13? 

Low  before  his  footstool  fall, 
Praise  the  Sov'reign  Lord  of  all. 

2  Health  and  plenty  bless  our  land, 
Bounties  of  th*  Almighty's  hand  ; 
Love  and  mercy  both  appear, 
Smiling  goodness  crowns  the  year, 

3  Yellow  fields  lift  -up  their  voice  ; 
Trees  with  fruitful  praise  rejoice  : 
Copious  show'rs  refresh  the  hills, 
Nature's  bosom  grateful  thrills. 

4  Scatter'd  round  the  verdant  vale, 
Notes  of  lowing  herds  prevail  ; 
From  the  lofty  mountain's  brow, 
Bleating  flocks  are  heard  below. 

.'j  Shepherds  joyful  tune  their  lyres. 
Gratitude  their  song  inspires  : 
Harvests  plenteous,  fill  their  store. 
Gladness  spreads  from  shore  to  shore,, 

fi  Now  the  joyful  chorus  join  ; 
Praise  the  bounteous  hand  divine  ; 
Hallelujah,  praise  the  Lord, 
Ever  be  his  name  ador'd. 


HYMN  CXXI.    7s. 

P ra is e  for  R edemfi (ion. 

i    l^rOW  begin  the  heav'nly  theme, 
„LN    Sing  aloud  in  Jesus'  name  : 


136  HYMNS, 

-Ye  who  his  salvation  prove, 
Triumph  in  redeeming  love* 

3  Ye,  alas  !  who  long  have  been 
Willing  slaves  of  death  and  sin, 
Now  from  bliss  no  longer  rove. 
Stop  and  taste  redeeming  love. 

3  Welcome  all,  by  sin  opprest, 
Welcome  to  his  sacred  rest  ; 
Nothing  brought  him  from  abo\e, 
Nothing  but  redeeming  love. 

4  When  his  spirit  leads  us  home. 
When  we  to  his  £lory  come, 
We  shall  all  the  fulness  prove, 
Of  our  Lord's  redeeming  love. 

5  He  subdu'd  thee  infernal  pow'rs, 
Those  tremendous  foes  of  ours. 
From  their  cursed  empire  drove  ; 
Mighty  in  redeeming  love. 

6  Hither,  then,  your  music  bring, 
Strike  aloud  each  cheerful  string, 
Mortals  join  the  hosts  above, 
Join  to  praise  redeeming  love. 


HYMN  CXX1I.    C.  M. 

"/  can  of  mine  own  self  do  nothing.  The 
father  which  gttve  them  me  U  greater  than, 
all:* 


H 


OW  many  christians  think  and  say, 
That  Christ  is  truly  God } 


HYMNS.  137 

Who  of  creation  has  theysway, 
And  rules  it  by  his  rod  ; 

2  This  sentiment  is  too  absurd 
To  be  embrac'd  as  right, 

Not  coming  from  his  holy  word, 
Nor  reason's  feebler  light. 

-3  We  in  no  part  of  scripture  find, 
When  thro'  the  whole  we've  run, 
Convincing  proof  to  show  the  mind, 
That  God  is  Christ  the  Son. 

4  Jesus  himself  confess'd  it  free, 
And  all  his  words  are  true, 
Hi3  father  greater  was  than  he, 
Whose  will  he  came  to  do. 

5  And  reason  teaches  ev'ry  one, 
And  we  her  force  admire, 
The  father  is  not  his  own  Son  ; 
Nor  is  the  Son  his  Sire. 

6  If  God  were  dead,  we  all  foresee, 
No  pow'r  remaining  rife, 
There  could  no  resurrection  be 
Of  him  again  to  life  ;, 

7  The  God  who  gives  us  life  and  breath. 
And  rules  the  earth  and  sky, 
Whose  Son  for  man  has  tasted  death 
Unable  is  to  die  ; 

3  Then  cease  to  think  Jehovah  di'd, 
When  Christ  his  life  resign'd, 

M  2 


138  HYMNS. 

And  brought  salvation  free  and  wide 
For  all  the  human  kind, 

9  To  God  our  thanks  and  praise  be  paid, 
Whose  Son  upon  the  cross, 
Has  restoration  fully  made* 
Of  Adam's  prestine  loss. 


HYMN  CXXIII.    C.  M. 

Faith  of  things  unseen.       Heb.  xi.   13,  8,  10= 

1  TT'AITH  is  the  brightest  evidence 
X/     Of  things  beyond  our  sight, 
Breaks  thro'  the  clouds  of  flesh  and  sense, 

And  dwells  in  heav'nly  light ; 

2  It  sets  times  past  in  present  view, 

Brings  distant  prospects  home, 
Of  things  a  thousand  years  ago, 
Or  thousand  years  to  come. 

3  By  faith  we  know  the  worlds  were  made 

By  God's  almighty  word  ; 
Abraham  to  unknown  countries  Je/d, 
By  faith  obey'd  the  Lord. 

A,  He  sought  a  city  fair  and  high, 
Buift  by  th'  eternal  hands  ; 
And  faith  assures  us,  tho'  we  die, 
That  heav?nly  building  stands-, 


HYMNS,  439 

HYMN  CXXIV.    8s  8c  7s< 

Jesits  of  Gallilee* 
\  T  TAIL,  thou  once  despised  Jesus ; 
JLjL  Hail,  thou  Gallilean  King ; 
Who  didst  suffer  to  release  us, 
Who  didst  free  salvation  bring  ; 
Hail,  thou  uniyersal  Saviour  ; 
Who  hast  borne  our  sin  and  shame^ 
By  whose  merits  we  find  favor, 
Life  is  given  through  thy  namo  ; 

3  Pascal  Lamb  by  God  appointed, 
All  our  sins  were  on  thee  laid  ; 
By  almighty  love  anointed, 
Thou  hast  full  atonement  made  ; 
Ev'ry  sin  is  now  forgiven, 
Through  the  virtue  of  thy  blood  ; 
Open'd  in  the  gate  of  heaven, 
Peace  is  made  'twixt  man  and  God. 

3  Worship,  honor,  pow'r  and  blessing, 
Christ  is  worthy  to  receive.—. 
Loudest  praises,  without  ceasing, 
Meet  it  is  for  us  to  give  ; 
Help,  ye  bright  angelic  spirits, 
Bring  your  sweetest,  noblest  lays, 
Help  to  sing  Christ  Jesus'  merits, 
Help  to  chant  Immanuel's,  prajsc. 


"A 


HYMN  CXXV.    C.  M. 

The  Example  of  Christ. 
ND  is  the  gospel  peace  and  love  ? 
Such  let  our  conversation  be  ; 


140  HYMNS. 

The  serpent  blended  with  the  dove. 
Wisdom  and  meek  simplicity. 

2  Whene'er  the  angry  passions  rise, 

And   tempt    our   thoughts  or  tongues  to 

strife  ; 
To  Jesus  let  us  lift  our  eyes, 
Bright  pattern  of  the  christian  life, 

3  O  how  benevolent  and  kind  ! 
How  mild  !  how  ready  to  forgive  ! 
Be  this  the  temper  of  our  mind, 
And  these  the  rules  by  which  we  live. 

4  To  do  his  heav'nly  father's  will, 
Was  his  employment  and  delight  ; 
Humility  and  holy  zeal 

Shine  thro'  his  life  divinely  bright  ! 

5  Dispensing  good  where'er  he  came, 
The  labors  of  his  life  were  love  $ 
O,  if  we  l«ve  the  Saviour's  name, 
Let  his  divine  example  move. 


HYxMN  CXXVI.    L.  M. 

Tares  and   Wheat. 

1  TNTO  discussion  let  us  bring 

X  A  parable  of  Christ  our  King  ; 
Concerning  but  the  wheat  and  tares 
Which  ev'ry  human  creature  bears. 

2  The  tares  denote  the  vice  and  sin 
Which  up  in  man's  frai!  bosom  faring  ; 


HYMNS,  14 1 

Sown  by  the  serpent  in  the  heart, 
When  Adam  did  from  God  depart. 

3  The  wheat  oh  th*  other  hand,  we  find, 
Means  truth  and  virtue  in  the  mind  ; 
Which,  in  distinction  from  the  tares, 
Each  one  in  some  small  measure  bears* 

4  We  cannot  take  the  tares  to  be 
The  workers  of  iniquity  ; 

If  such  they  were,  it  follows  plain, 
All  being  tares,  there  was  no  grain. 

5  The  wheat  and  tares,  we  plainly  see, 
On  the  same  spot  of  ground  must  be  ; 
Or  else  to  pull  up  ev  ry  tare 
Would  not  a  blade  of  wheat  impair. 

6  If  by  the  wheat  those  men  are  meant 
Whose  days  in  pious  works  are  spent  4 
And  by  the  tares,  ungodly  men, 

They  do  not  grow  together  then. 

7  Were  this  the  case  ;  the  tares  to  kill 
Would  do  the  wheat  no  good  nor  ill  ; 
Each  on  its  sep'rate  soil  might  grown;. 
And  interference  never  known. 

4  First,  on  the  ground  the  wheat  was  sown  ; 
Then  on  the  wheat  the  tares  were  thrown  ; 
The  husbandman  sow'dwith  wheat  the  soil ; 
The  foe,  the  tares  the  crop  to  spoil- 

9  Altho'  the  husbandman  complete 

£new  that  the  tares  would  hurt  the  wheat; 


14&  HYMNS. 

He  knew  'twould  less  the  crop  impair, 
Than  'twould  to  pull  up  ev'ry  tare* 

10  Together  then,  said  he,  abide 
Till  harvest — then  I'll  you  divide  ; 
Secure  the  wheat,  but  burn  the  chaff. 
And  at  my  foe  defeated  laugh. 

1 1  Thus  God,  as  we  in  Scripture  read, 
Defeats  the  devil  and  his  breed  ; 
And  brings  to  life  his  offspring  dead, 
Since  Christ  has  bruis'd  the  serpent's  head- 


HYMN  CXXVII.    C.  Mo 

<*  What  God  hath  cleansed,  that  call  thou    not 
coTnmon."    Acts.  x. 

1  \  S  God,  the  author  of  our  race, 
J\,  Upon  the  Gentiles  shone, 
He  in  a  vision  clear'd  the  case 
To  Peter's  mind  alone. 

2  Th'  apostle  saw  in  vision  short, 
A  sheet  let  down  from  heav'n, 
Containing  beasts  of  ev'ry  sort, 
To  which  four  legs  are  giv'n. 

3  Among  the  beasts  were  creeping  things, 
Of  many  a  form  and  size, 

Which  into  life  Jehovah  brings, 
For  ends  both  good  and  wise. 

4  While  wond'ring  at  the  living  heap, 


HYMNS.  14:3 

He  heard  a  voice  from  heav'n— • 
Rise,  Peter,  rise  and  kill  and  eat, 
To  you  tor  food,  tis  giv'n. 

5  To  kill  and  eat  he  would  not  try, 
The  present  look'd  so  mean  ; 
Hence,  "  Not  so,  Lord,  he  out  did  cry 
I've  nothing  eat  unclean. 

6  Then  said  the  voice  in  tones  serene, 
(Us'd  for  conviction's  ends) 

11  Call  thou  not  common  or  unclean, 
What  God  himself  doth  cleanse." 

7^  Thus  was  he  taught,  on  wisdom's  scheme, 
This  piece  of  sacred  lore  : 
That  he  should  call  no  man  unclean, 
As  he  had  done  before. 

&  So  ends  the  vision,  kindly  giv'n 
To  teach  this  doctrine  true, — 
That  ev'ry  Gentile  shall  have  heav'n, 
As  well  as  ev'ry  Jew. 


HYMN  CXXVIII.    C.  P.  M. 

Praise  to  Christ  for  Redemption, 

1    TVTOW  shall  our  tongues  with  rapture 
iM  tell, 

How  Jesus  conquer'd  death  and  heU, 

When  on  the  cross  he  di'd ; 
His  spoil  we  are,  he'll  not  deny, 
But  own  us  to  eternity, 

Hir»  loy'd,  his  chosen  bride, 


144  HYMNS. 

2  His  mystery,  his  death  and  blood, 
Hath  reconcil'd  us  all  to  God  ; 

His  glory  hides  our  shame  : 
While  Christ  is  God's  beloved  Son, 
"We  live  with  him  tbrever  one 

In  sonship,  grace  and  name. 

3  That  he  might  equitably  bleed, 

He  took  upon  him  Abrah'm's  seed, 

Then  to  the  altar  went  ; 
Whilst  in  this  Lamb  to  slaughter  led? 
The  sinner  bare  on  his  own  head 

His  sin,  and  punishment. 

4  Nor  will  he  us  in  trials  leave, 

But  still  is  with  us  strong  to  save  ; 

^  Whilst  we  on  earth  remain. 
In  him  our  life,  our  all,  is  found  ; 
Than  sin,  his  grace  did  more  abound, 
Reveal'd  when  he  was  slain. 

5  How  rich  the  love,  dear  God,  that  we 
Should  be  belov'd,  belov'd  by  thee, 

And  sav'd  from  all  our   shame  : 
With  joy,  we'll  praise  thee  till  we  die, 
And  after  death  eternally 

Adore  thy  balmy  name. 

Tune  Nativity. 

HYMN  CXXIX.  L.  M. 

'  Our  believing  a  truths  does  not  create  a  truth  , 
or,  Christ  as  much  a  Saviour  before,  as  aj- 
ter  believing  on  him, 

I  TF  there  were  not  a  Christ  for  me, 
X  'Till  I  beiiev'd  in  that  dear  name  ; 


Hymns.  44J 

Then  my  belief  must  surely  be 
For  me  th*e  maker  of  the  Lamb. 

2  But  if  there  were  a  Christ  for  me, 
Ere  I  believ'd  in  such  a  name  ; 
Then  faith  creates  him  not,  I  see, 

But  gives  me  knowledge  of  the  same, 

3  If  there  were  not  a  Christ  for  you, 
My  friend,  till  your  helieving  hour  ; 
Then  your  belief  has  made  that  true, 
Which  was  untrue,  or  false  before. 

4  Give  ear,  both  aged  men  and  youth, 
For  this  I  boldly  testify-— 

A  lie  can  ne'er  be  made  a  truth, 
"Nor  can  a  truth  be  made  a  lie. 

5  Ere  faith  was  giv'n,  Christ  Jesus  wrojight9 
A  sure  redemption  for  each  one  ; 

No  place  had  else  been  found  or  sought 
To  fix  a  true  belief  upon. 


HYMN  CXXX.    8s  &■  7s. 

On  the  death  of  a  Child  at  day  break,     "Let 
me  go  for  the  day  breaketh.'* 

I  H/^i  EASE  here  longer  to  detain  me  ; 
V^y  Fondest  Mother,  drown'd  in  woe  ; 
Now  thy  kind  caresses  pain  me, 
Morn  advances-— let  me  go. 

N 


iJti  HYMNS. 

2  "  See  van  orient  streak  appearing .'. 
Harbinger  of  endless  day  : 
Hark,  a  yoice  the  darkness  cheering* 
Calls*  my  new  born  soul  away  J 

5  il  Lately  launch'd  a  trembling  Stranger, 
On  the  world's  wide  boisterous  flood, 
Pierc'd  with  sorrows,  toss'd  with   danger. 
Gladly  I  return  to  God. 

4  J*  Now  my  cries  shall  cease  to  grieve  thee.- 
Now  my  trembling  heart  find  rest  ; 
Kinder  arms  than  thine  receive  me, 
Softer  pillow  than  thy  breast. 

5  '*  Weep  not  o'er  these  eyes  that  languish. 
Upward  turning  towards  their  Home  : 
RapturM  they'll  forget  all  anguish, 
While  they  wait  to  see  thee  come. 

6  «  There,  my  Mother,  pleasures  center — 
— Weeping,  Parting,  Care  or  Woe 
Ne'er  our  Father's  House  shall  enter — 
Morn  advances — let  me  go. 

7  <;  As  through  this  calm,  this  holy  dawning. 
Silent  glides  my  parting  breath, 

To  an  everlasting  morning — 
Gently  close  my'eyes  in  death. 

8  "  Blessings,  endless,  richest  blessings, 
Pour  their  streams  upon  thy  heart  ! 
(Though  no  language  yet  possessing) 
Breathes  my  spirit  ere  we  part. 

9  <*  Yet  to  leave  thee  sorrowing,  rends  mc, 


HYMNS.  d47 

][hough  again  his  voice  I  hear; 
Rise  !  may  every  grace  attend  thee, 
l^ise  !  and  seek  to  meet  me  there," 


HYMN  CXXXI,     C.  M. 

Hope  in  the  Rock  of  Salvation. 

1  TIC  THEN  we  remember  we  must  die 

V  V     And  turn  to  dust  again  ; 
It  often  makes  our  bosom  sigh  ; 
Such  is  our  dread  of  pain. 

2  But  when  we  think  wihin  this  clay, 

A  part  immortal  lives  ; 
Which  pain  nor  death  can  waste  away, 
The  thought  much  pleasure  gives. 

3  Our  spirits  hope  for  endless  rest 

Beyond  the  dreary  grave; 
As  us  with  souls  the  Lord  hath  bless'd, 
Which  he,  at  will,  can  save. 

4  This  hope  which  God  to  men  imparls-, 

Where  nature's  light  but  shines ; 
Is  strengthen'd  in  our  longing  hearts, 
By  Revelation  $  lines. 

->  For  in  the  volume  of  his  word, 
Which  he  to  us  has  giv'n, 
He  to  our  souls  doth  proof  afford 
Of  endless  life  and  heav'n, 

6  To  God,  from  wl?om  o$r  spirits  come, 


148 '  HYMNS. 

And  whom  we  father  call, 
Let  ev'ry  child  his  pean  frame  *9 
For  God  is  good  to  all. 


HYMN  CXXXII.    L..  Bf. 

Death   made    welcome^    a*  the    harbinger  0/ 
Glory, 

1  "P\EATH,  thou  art  welcome  to  my  arms^ 
JL/  Attended  by  a  thousand  charms  ; 
From  prison  then  I  shall  be  freed, 

By  pow'r  divine,  and  live  indeed. 

2  Then  let  this  feeble  flesh  decay, 
Joyful  the  summons  I'll  obey  ; 
My  heav'nly  body  longs  to  flee 
From  prison  to  full  liberty. 

3  This  flesh  and  blood  I  want  no  more, 
I  land  upon  a  purer  shore ; 

Its  work  is  done,  and  I  resign 
That  dust  which  is  no  longer  mine. 

4  Then  will  my  spirit  glorious  rise, 
Matur'd  by  goodness  for  the  skies  I 
A  form  of  heav'nly  light  and  love^ 
And  well  prepar'd  to  live  above. . 


HYMNS.  149 

HYMN  CXXXIII.    C.  M. 

Jill  men  subjects  of  fir aye r,  because  God  will 
have  all  men  to  be  saved  and  come  to  the 
knowledge  of  the  truth. 

1  'T^HIS  is  among  our  Lord's  commands, 

I      Whose  father  gave  us  birth  : 
That  ail  should  pray  with  lifted  hands 
For  ev'ry  man  on  earth* 

2  And  as  alike  our  Saviour  cares 

For  all  the  human  race, 
He  bids  us  make  for  all  our  pray'rs, 
Not  doubting,  but  in  faith. 

3  For  this,  the  reason  he  has  given, 

Which  here  we  now  assign  ; 
God  will  have  all  men  go  to  heav'n, 
And  know  the  truth  divine. 

4  As  all  are  bidden  ev'ry  where 

To  pray  for  all  in  faith ; 
Christ  means  they  all  alike  shall  fare* 
Who  are  of  Adam's  race. 

5  The  Father  who  has  sent  his  Son 

His  will  to  testify, 
Intends  they  all  to  heav'n  shall  come, 
As  Christ  for  all  did  die. 

6  Now  if  we  pray  that  all  our  race 

Eternal  life  may  gain  ; 
Of  which  we've  neither  hope  nor  faith  ; 
We  mock  Christ  in  God's  name  ; 
N  2 


i50  HYMNS. 

HYMN  CXXXIV.    C.  M. 

Foreign  Missionary  Hymn, 

1  TS  it  the  voice  of  God  we  hear, 

J.  That   bids    us  leave  our  friends,    our 

homes, 
Our  brothers,  sisters,  mothers  dear, 
Our  fathers,  and  their  fathers'  tombs  J 

2  Is  it  his  voice  that  bids  us  fly, 

Renounce  our  country  and  its  name, 
Beneath  an  Indian  sun  to  die, 
To  gain  a  Missionaries'  fame  ? 

3  Am  I  a  husband  ?  shall  I  doom 

My  wife  with  me  to  cross  the  wave> 
To  find,  perhaps,  an  early  tomb, 
A  distant  or  a  watery  grave  ? 

4  Am  I  a  wife  ?  shall  I  resign 

My  father,  mother — all  but  one^ 
To  melt  with  fever  at  the  line, 
Or  scorch  beneath  an  Indian  sun  I* 

5  Shall  we  bid  all  that's  dear,  adieu, 

And  leaning  on  the  arm  of  God, 
Tread  o'er  those  dangerous  scenes^  whict 
few 
Have  ever  known,  and  fewer  trod  I 

n  Yes :  'tis  the  voice  of  God  : — we  go, 

We  leave  our  own  for  Ganges'  shore  y 
Whether  waves  roll  or  tempests  blow, 
The  God  cf  tempests  steers  us  6'er, 


HYMNS.  151 

7  That  Gqd  who  rolls  thro*  cliff  'rent  skies, 
A  temp'rate  or  a  torrid  sun, 
That  God  hears  all  his  children's  sighs  ;— 
Diff'rent  the  clime,  the  God  is  ONE. 


HYMN  CXXXV.    C*  M. 

<;  By  grace  are  ye  saved,  and  that  not  of  your* 
selves  •,  it  is  the  gift  of  God  J9 

1  TF  our  salvation  is  by  grace, 
JL  According  to  God's  will  ; 
There's  no  condition  in  the  case 

For  sinners  to  fulfil. 

2  Thus  as  salvation  is  the  gift 

Of  God,  through  Christ  the  Son, 
The  subject  has  it  not  for  list, 
Nor  ought  that  he  has  done. 

3  If  God  to  men  the  terms  has  giv'n, 

In  heav'n  to  gain  a  place, 
9Tis  their  performance  gives  them  heav'n, 
And  life  is  not  by  grace. 

4»  If  men  in  heav'n  a  seat  obtain, 
On  terms  perform'd  at  list  $ 
By  purchase  they  salvation  gain, 
And  heav'n  is  not  a  gift. 

5  Blest  be  our  God  who  gave  his  Son 
To  die  for  all  our  race  ; 
And  to  extend  to  ev'ry  one, 
Salvation  free  by  grace. 


io%  HYMNS. 

HYMN  CXXXYI.     L.  M. 

To  condemn  man  to  eternal  ivoe  is  to  deny  the 
efficacy  of  Chrises  ?nerits. 

I  "OOLD  is  the  man,  who  dares  to  curse 
|3  One  soul,  here  on  this  earthly  ball, 
Since  Jesus  di'd  and  rose  for  us. 
In  whom  God  justify  M  us  all. 

2  He  that  condemns  one   soul  on  earth, 
He  doth  condemn  the  Lord's  elect ; 
He  doth  condemn  himself  to  death, 
And  doth  the  Son  of  God  reject. 

3  Since  Jesus  Christ  contains  the  whole. 
In  whom  all  nations  are  as  one  ;* 

He  that  condemns  a  single  soul, 
Condemns  Jehovah's  righteous  Son. 

4  The  man  that  doth  one  soul  despise, 
Rejecteth  God  and  Christ  the  Lamb; 
The  Lord  afresh  he  crucifies, 

And  puts  him  to  an  open  shame. 

5  Christ  is  our  Head,  we  join  in  him, 
In  such  a  perfect  unity, 

That  if  we  harm  the  smallest  limb, 
We  do  the  whole  an  injury. 

6  With  Christ  we  all  were  crucify'd, 
With  Jesus  Christ  we  rose  again, 
And  we  in  him  are  justify'd, 

A  ad  we  with  him  shall  live  and  reign,. 


HYMNS,  153 

HYMN  CXXXVn.    C.  M. 

Faith    the    gift  •/  God ;  not  the    act  of  f/ie 
creature. 

I   tF  faith  in  Christ,  the  Son  of  God, 
L  A  present  is  to  men  ; 
Why  have  its  subjects  said  abroad, 
That  faith  proceeds  from  them 

%  If  faith  in  Jesus  is  a  gift, 
As  all  confess  the  fact  5 
5Tis  not  the  fruit  of  human  list* 
Nor  is  the  creature's  act. 

3  If  men  their  faith  in  Christ  produce, 

As  some  the  case  may  view  ; 
'Tis  then  as  much  their  work,  in  truth, 
As  any  work  they  do. 

4  If  of  themselves  they've  pow'r  and  skill 

In  Jesus  to  believe  ; 
They  faith  can  have  in  what  they  will, 
And  what  they  will,  achieve. 

$  If  faith  a  human  act  were  found, 
As  many  hold  the  case  ; 
And  faith  is  their  salvation's  ground, 
They're  sav'd  by  human  grace,. 

6  Adam  of  God  receiv'd  his  life, 
In  which  he  had  no  voice  5 
Sinners  of  God  have  faith  in  Christy 
And  in  the  gift  rejoice* 


iO±  HYMNS. 

HYMN  CXXXYIII.     7s. 

Encouragement     to     trust    in  God   our    sat 
vation. 

1  QONS  of  Adam,  why  despair? 

JO   Know  your  heav'nly  Father's  care  : 
Though  you're  fallen,  ye  shall  be 
Heirs  of  bliss  eternally, 

2  God  is  love,  nor  wrath  can  bear  ; 
hove  with  wrath  shall  never  share; 
Chasfc'ning  rods  as  mejrcies  prove, 
Guided  by  a  Father's  love. 

2  Christ,  the  ransom'd  price  hath  paid ; 
lie's  become  his  people's  Head  ; 
lie  on  Calv'ry's  summit  di'd  ; 
God,  your  Father's  satisfy'd. 

4  Trace  his  love,  and  say,  if  you 
Can  refrain  from  loving  too  ; 
Walk  his  ways  and  trust  his  word; 
Peace  and  comfort  they  afford. 


HYMN  CXXX1X.     C.  M. 

Flesh  and  blood  cannot  inherit  the  kingdo-i 
of  God." 

S  flesh  and  blood  inherit  not 
God's  kingdom  pure  and  wise  , 
So  'tis  the  mortal  body's  lot, 
To  fall,  no  more  to  rise. 


HYMNS.  155 

£  The  nat'ral  body  yields  its  breath ; 
And  moulders  into  earth  ; 
The  spirit  freed  from  moral  death, 
Receives  the  second  birth. 

S  The  nat'ral  body  turn'd  to  dust, 
No  more  through  life  to  range, 
Shall  never  rise  immortal,  just ; 
Nor  to  a  spirit  change. 

4  Then  let  us  in  the  truth  confide  ; 

That  Christ  the  Son  of  God, 
To  save  the  spirit  only,  died, — . 
But  not  the  flesh  and  blood. 

5  Adam  the  firsts  by  breach  of  law,, 

His  heirs  to  death  has  given  : 

Adam  the  second,  mends  the  flaw 

And  takes  them  all  to  heav'ii. 


HYMN  CXL.     0.  M. 
Affectionate  parting  oj  two  Brothers. 

1  TH\EAR  brother,  though  this  very  da; 
JL/   We  must  in  body  part, 

May  we  together  always  stay 
In  sentiment  and  heart. 

2  If  here,  on  time's  tempestuous  shore, 

We  never  meet  again  ; 
We  hope  to  meet,  to  part  no  more, 
On  heav'ns  immortal  plain, 


1.5fi  nxtffta-. 

3  If  parting  here  to  meet  no  more, 

Makes  love's  fond  bosom  sad  ; 
Our  meeting  next,  to  part  no  more, 
Will  make  us  doubly  glad. 

4  The  Gospel  trump,  sound  loud  and  dear. 

While  you  possess  a  voice, 
That  many  of  the  dead  may  hear, 
And  in  the  truth  rejoice. 


HYMN  CXLI.    L.  M. 

4n  awful  thought  to  entertain  of  God  ! 

1  HpHIS  view  of  God  have  christians  giv'n 

I     That  he  on  purpose  makes 
Some  souls  for  woe — and  some  for  heav'ii 
Decreeing  both  their  fates  ; 

2  That  God  on  those  he  takes  to  heav'n, 
Displays  his  grace  divine  ; 

While  on  the  rest,  to  torment  giv'n, 
He  makes  his  justice  shine  i 

3  That  these,  tho'  reprobates,  are  free, 
And  heav'n  by  choice  might  gain  ; 
Aitho'  consign'd  by  God's  decree 
To  never-ending  pain  ! 

4  They  say  tho'  reprobates  they  be, 
They  into  hell  are  driv'n 

For  breaking  not  God's  first  decree, 
Which  bars  them  out  of  heav'n. 


HYMNS.  157 

5  God  saitb  he  wills  that  all  shall  find 
In  Christ*  eternal  rest  ; 
They  say  to  woe  he  hath  eonsign'd 
A  part — now  who  knows  best  I 


HYMN  CLXII.    C.  M. 

The  Cafitain  of  our  Salvation  to  his  Member s 
yet  remaining  on  the  Earth. 

I  TTARK  !   'tis    our    heav'nly    Leader's 
JTX         voice 
From  his  triumphant  seat  ; 
'Midst  all  the  war's  tumult'ous  noise; 
How  pow'rful  and  how  sweet ! 

"2  Fight  on  my  faithful  band  he  cries 
Nor  fear  the  mortal  blow 
Who  first  in  such  a  warfare  dies, 
Shall  speedi'st  victory  know. 

3  I  have  my  day  of  combat  known, 
And  in  the  dust  was  laid  ; 

But  thence  I  mounted  to  my  throng 
And  glory  crowns  my  head. 

4  That  throne,  that  glory  you  shall  share 
My  hands  the  crown  shall  give  ; 
And  you  the  sparkling  honors  wearj 
As  Jong  as  God  shall  live, 

Q 


158  imiKS. 

U(YMN   CXLIIL     L.  M. 

The  joys  of  heaven  beyond    man's  conce/i:ion9 
while  here  in  the  Jiesh. 

1  TVTO  pow'r  have  mortals  to  conceive 
ll    Of  that  celestial  joy, 

Which  disembodied  souls  receive 
In  Glory's  sweet  employ. 

2  Alike  remote  from  hope  and  fear. 
Which  now  our  minds  molest  : 
Fruition's  bliss,  divine  and  clear, 
Will  occupy  each  breast. 

o  We  ne'er  can  know  while  here  we  live, 
What  kind  of  exercise 
Will  to  the  spirit  pleasure  give, 
When  we  to  heav'n  arrive* 

4  But  this  the  Gospel  shews  us  clear 
With  Jesus  we  shall  be, 

And  in  his  stature  full  appear 
And  be  as  blest  as  he. 

5  We  know  as  much  of  this  concern. 
As  here  we  ought  to  know  : 

The  rest  of  Jesus  we  shall  learn, 
When  home  to  him  we  go. 

6  In  hope  of  that  immortal  rest 
Which  his  own  spirit  p;ives, 
We  wait  till  Jesus  thinks  it  best. 
To  call  us  where  he  lives. 


HYMXS.  1 59 

HYMN  CXL1V*     L.  M. 

Cod  our  8alvatio?i  and  strength. 

THE  joyful,  happy  day  appears 
Jehovah  dries  his  Zion's  tears  ! 
He  comes  to  bless  the  humble  race, 
And  show  the  wonders  of  his  grace. 

1  Great  God,  thy  praise  shall  rise  to  thee. 
Thy  seeming  anger's  turn'd  from  me  -T 
My  comforts  now  thou  wilt  restore. 
And  weeping  Zion  weep  no  more. 

3  Behold  our  God,  the  mighty  God, 

Who  spread  the  num'rous    worlds  abroad. 

Is  our  salvation  ;  we  rejoice, 

And  praise  his  name  with  cheerful  voice  - 

4  We'll  trust  in  him  nor  be  afraid, 
Jehovah  is  our  fortress  made  ; 

He  is  our  strength,  his  arm  is  strong, 
And  we'll  exalt  him  in  our  song. 

5  Wells  of  salvation  open  stand, 
And  living  waters  bless  the  land  : 
And  while  we  draw,  with  joys  divine, 
Our  grateful  praises,  Lord,  are  thine. 

HYMN  CXLV.    C.  M. 

The  preference  of  Heavenly  to  Earthly  things  ; 
or  the  uncertainty  of  life. 


H 


OW  vain  the  joys  of  time  and  sens* 
Compar'd  to  heav'nly  food  ! 


£60  HYMNS. 

Then  let  us  with  the  ill  dispense, 
And  live  upon  the  good. 

2  The  foretaste  of  the  things  divine, 
Reserv'd  for  all,  by  grace, 

Should    wean    our  hearts  from    things  in 

time, 
So  transient  here  our  race. 

3  Each  object  on  this  rolling  earth 
Is  subject  to  decay  ; 
Whatever  has  in  time  its  birth, 
Is  passing  fast  away. 

4  We  now  behold  th'  expanded  flowrr, 
So  charming  to  the  sense  ; 

The  passage  of  a  transient  hour, 
May  sweep  its  beauty  hence. 

5  Behold  to-day  the  blooming  youth*, 
Joy  sparkles  in  his  eyes  1 

He  on  the  morrow,  'tis  the  truth, 
May  fall  no  more  to  rise. 

6  All  human  creatures,  young  and  old, 
Which  throng  the  streets  to  day  % 
A  few  more  revolutions  told, 

And  where,  alas  !  are  they  I 

7  Let  us  rise  and  trim  our  lamps, 
And  keep  them  burning  clear  ; 

For  death  will  enter  soon  our  camps, 
The  bridegroom  b^ing  near. 

3  May  all  our  souls  by  grace  divine 
Upon  the  bridegroom's  call, 


HYMNS.  161 

Leap  out  the  wedding  guests  to  join, 
Where  God  is  all  in  all. 


HYMN  CXLVI.    7s. 
Jesus  is  risen  to-day. 

JESUS  CHRIST  is  risen  to-day,  Halle- 
lujah. 
Our  triumphant,  holy  day,  Hallelujah, 
Who  so  sately  on  the  cross,  Hallelujah. 
Sufter'd  to  redeem  our  loss,  Hallelujah. 

2  Hymns  of  praises  let  us  sing,  Hallelujah. 
Unto  Christ  our  heav'niy   King,   Hallelu- 

jah, 

Who  endured  the  cross  and  grave,  Halle- 
lujah, 

Sinners  to  redeem  and  save,  Hallelujah. 

3  But  the  pains  which  he    endur'd,  Hallelu* 

jah. 
Our  salvation  has  procur'd  :    Hallelujah. 
Now  he  reigns  above  the  sky,  Hallefuiart, 
Where  the  angels  ever  cry,  Hallelujah. 


HYMN  CXLY1I.    C.  M. 

"  Death  it stlf  shall  die y 

DEATH,  thou  destroyer  of  our  race, 
Whom  terror's  king  we  call; 


163  HYMNS. 

One  day  thy  exit  mast  take  place., 
And  Christ  be  King  of  all. 

2  Immanuel  by  his  mighty  pow'r, 
(The  friend  of  all  the  slain) 
Shall  kill  thee  at  th'  appointed  houiv 
And  give  them  life  again. 

3'  He  for  this  purpose  can  on  earth, 
Thy  ruin  sure  to  be  ; 
To  give  thy  slain  the  second  birth, 
And  life  from  evil  free. 

4  O  death  !     I'll"  be  thy  plague  (he  said) 
And  thy  destruction,  grave  ; 

Of  all  thy  captives  I'm  the  head 
And  will  my  members  save. 

5  Both  death  and  hell,  for  mercy's  sake,. 
The  Christ  whom  we  adore 

Will  cast'in  fire  and  brimstone's  lake. 
And  they  shall  be  no  more. 

6  When  death  and  hell  shall  cease  to  be 
Thro'  our  victorious  head  ; 

In  him  his  member's  life  shall  see, 
No  one  remaining  dead. 

7  'Twill  be  to  all  a  blessed  thing, 
With  their  immortal  breath. 
Salvation's  captain's  praise  to  sing* 
And  chant  the  death  of  death* 


!W 


HYMNS.  163 

HYMN  CXLVIII.     L.  M. 

»  Hofie  then  in  God." 

HY    sinks    my    weak    desponding 
mind  ? 

Why  heaves  my  heart  the  anxious  sigh, 
Can  sovereign  goodness  be  unkind  ? 
And  I  not  safe  if  God  be  nigh  ? 

2  He  holds  all  nature)  in  his  hand  : 
That  gracious  hand  on  which  I  live, 
Does  life,  and  time,  and  death  command, 
And  has  immortal  joys  to  give. 

3  'Tis  he  supports  this  fainting  framje, 
On  him  alone  my  hopes  recline  : 
The  wond'rous  glories  of  his  name, 

How  wide  they  spread  ;  how   bright    they 
shine ! 

4  Infinite  wisdom !  boundless  pow'r ! 
Unchanging  faithfulness  end  love  ! 
Here  let  me  trust,  while  I  adore, 
Nor  from  my  refuge  e'er  remove. 


HYMN  CXLIX.    L.  M. 

All  liars  shall  have  their  fiart  in  the  lake 
which  burns  withjire  and  brimstone  :  Or 
hell  in  this  world. 


'A 


LL  liars  shall  their  portion  have 
In  fire  and  brimstone's  dreatj^Iake3 


1(5-4  HYMNS. 

As  we  for  truth  in  scripture  have^ 
Whose  import  many  men  mistake* 

2  Now  whither  shall  a  person  go 
To  find  the  ntan  who  never  li'd  ? 
He  cannot  find  him  here  below, 
If  we  in  David's  words  confide. 

3  Now  if  all  men  have  liars  been, 
Brimstone  and  fire  their  lot  must  be  j 
When  do  they  suffer  this  for  sin  ? 

In  time  or  in  eternity  ? 

4  In  order  to  decide  the  case, 

The  fire's  extent  we  must  define-*. 
Whether  it  be  an  endless  space, 
Or  a  restricted  term  of  time. 

p  Now  if  it  be  an  endless  space  ; 
That  liars  suffer  fire  for  lies; 
Not  one  of  all  the  human  race 
To  heav'nly  bliss  will  ever  rise. 

,6  But  if  it  be  restricted  time, 
That  liars  to  the  fire  are  giv'ns 
All  liar's  will,  by  grace  divine, 
"4  Escape  from  heli  and  fly  to  heav'!*,*' 

7  If  we  of  this  do  proof  receive, 

That  but  one  liar  to  heav'n  has  gone  ; 
We  may  from  inprence  then  beiievex 
The  rest  will  follow  him  ere  long. 

8  This  lake,  of  course,  is  here  in  lime, 
WJaepce  they  escape  to  heav'n  above; 


HYMNS.  l!8fi 

For  they  no  sooner  life  resign, 
ThanHfcey  are  with  the  God  of  tov; 


HYMN  CL.    L.  *t 

The  fall  of  Adam  no  di&afifiointment  to  God  ; 
or  the  Sovereignty  of  Jehovah  vindicated, 

1  T  TOW  can  a  heav'n  taught  soul  believe, 
XX  The  Serpent  did  the  Lord  defeat, 
When  he  sedue'd  our  mother  Eve, 
With  whom  the  man  the  fruit  did  eat, 

2  They  have  as  fact  the  thing  believ'd 
Who  hold  that  satan,  by  his  skill, 
Has  our  first  parents  thus  decciv'd, 
Against  their  Maker's  plan  and  wiih 

3  Their  words  this  infrenco  justify  : 
That  satan  thus  on  mischief  bent, 
Occasion1  d  grief  in  God  most  high* 
And  made  him  of  his  work  repent, 

4  If  God  of  making  man  repents, 
As  many  a  zealot  now  contends  ; 
Then  want  of  wisdon  he  laments, 
Or  lack  of  pow'r  to  work  his  ends. 

5  If  there  be  sorrow  on  his  part 

Who  made  and  plac'd  his  creatures  here  ; 
Men  must  forgive  him  from  the  heart, 
If  they  believe  his  grief  sincere  ; 

6  The  shocking  inference  we  have  drawn, 


166  HYMNS. 

From  premises  as  truth  believ'd* 

Proves  men  aside  from  sense    have    gone^ 

And  falsehood  as  the  truth  receiv'd. 

.7  Jehovah's  boundless  pow'r  and  skill, 
In  ev'ry  case  performs  his  will  ; 
And  on  the  plan  he  form'd  our  race, 
Pull's  down  for  sin  to  raise  by  grace. 

8  Still  none  of  all  the  human  kind 
With  God  for  this  a  fault  can  find  ; 
For  he  who  mtk.es  alive  and  kills, 
By  sov'reign  right  doth  all  he  willk. 


HYMN  CLI.     C.  M. 

Good  works  firojitable  unto  men. 
Job-  xxxv.    7,  8. 

I    /^1  OOD  works  that   have  their  proper 
VT         place, 
Are  not  to  be  despis'd  ; 
But  works  that  stand  instead  of  grace, 
Oppose  the  blood  of  Christ. 

I  Our  goodness  can't  extend  to  God  ; 
Whom  can  we  profit  then  ? 
Wrhy  we  may  do  his  children  good. 
Or  help  the  sons  of  men. 

-.J  Herein  we  may  the  Lord  adore 
Who  is  our  righteousness, 
Visit  the  sick,  relieve  the  poor, 
Ai«d  feed  the  fatherless. 


HYMNS.  -it)?' 

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4  But  let  us  not  attempt  to  go 
And  charge  it  to  the  Lord  ; 

Tis  but  the  service  that  we  owe* 
And  'tis  its  own  reward. 

5  Give  ev'ry  work  its  proper  ground  ; 
For  they  must  all  expire, 

If  in  the  place  of  Jesus  found, 
And  be  consum'd  with  five. 

6  Herein  the  grand  mistake  is  made 
Among  the  human  race  : 

They  have  their  own  foundation  laid, 
And  took  their  works  for  grace. 

7  Christ  is  the  sure  foundation  laid 
For  ev'ry  one  of  us  ; 

Faith  without  works  is  counted  dead  : 
Works  without  faith  are  worse. 


HYMN  CLU.    I.,  >J. 

Closes  and  Joshua  or  Christ  ;  or  the  Law  and 
Gosfid. 

1  f^\  O,  (saith  the  Lord  to  Moses)  go, 
\JT  And  view  the  land  of  thy  desire, 
From  Pisgah's  top  to  Nebo's  mount, 
And  on  the  mountain  then  expire. 

2  Obedient  to  his  Maker's  will, 
The  prophet  with  a  faithful  eye, 
Went  leaping  up  the  lofty  hill, 

To  view  the  promis'd  land  and  die,\ 


168  HYMNS. 

3  O'er  Jordan's  flood  he  cast,  his  eye?, 
And  sees  afar  the  promis'd  shore  ; 
And  on  the  place  appointed  dies, 
And  fails  to  lead  the  people  o'er. 

4  As  Moses  on  the  mountain  died 
And  left  the  lead  to  Joshua  ; 

So  Christ  the  law  hath  magnified, 
And  brought  the  glorious  Gospel  day. 

5  As  Joshua  now  stood  in  the  room 
Of  Moses  after  he  deceas'd  ; 

So  Jesus  Christ  is  now  become 
Our  Prophet,  leader  and  our  Priest. 

6  As  Joshua  led  to  Canaan's  land 
The  tribes  which  Moses  left  behind  ; 
So  Jesus  by  his  Sire's  command 
Will  lead  to  heaven  all  mankind. 


HYMN  CLIII.     S.  M. 

For  a  Lord's  day  morning. 

1  T3  EHOLD,  the  morning  sun 
J3  Begins  his  glorious  way; 

His  beams  through  all  the  nations  run, 
And  life  and  light  convey. 

2  But  where  the  gospel  comes, 

It  spreads  diviner  light, 
It  calls  dead  sinners  from  their  tombs, 
And  giyes  the  blind  their  sight, 

3  How  perfect  is  thy  word  ? 


HYMNS.  169 

And  all  thy  judgments  just  ; 
For  ever  sure  thy  promise,  Lord, 
And  men  securely  trust. 

4  My  gracious  God,  how  plain 

Are  thy  directions  giv'n  I 
O  may  I  never  read  in  vain, 

But  find  the  path  to  heav'n. 


HYMN  CLIV.    C.  M. 

Moses  and  Joshua;  oryLaiv  and  Gospel. 

1  TXT  HEN  Moses  got  on  Pisgah's  top, 

V V     And  viewM  the  promis'd  land  ; 
On  Nebo's  mount  his  life  he  dropt, 
At  God's  supreme  command. 

2  This  shews  us,  that  the  moral  Llftv 
Which  God  by  Moses  gave, 

That  holds  transgressors'  hearts  in  awe- 
Was  never  meant  to  save. 

3  As  Moses  could  not  reach  thejlanfl 
On  which  he  kept  his  eye  ; 

No  nner  by  the  law  can  stand* 
Tho'  all  to  do  it  try. 

4  As  Joshua  (Jesus*  brilliant  type"") 
The  promis'd  land  possess'd ; 
So  Isr'el  all,  by  grace  and  light, 
Will  enter  heav'nly  rest. 

5  Here  Law  and  Gospel  brought  to  view, 

P      - 


J70  HYMNS. 

Apply  to  ev'ry  one ; 

That  shows  us  what  we  cannot  do  : 

And  this,  what  Christ  has  done. 

6  The  law  our  teacher  thus  appeal's 
To  fthow  us  what  we  are  ; 
The  Gospel  quelling  all  our  fears, 
Does  Christ  our  friend  declare. 

f  Tho*  all  by  breach  of  law  were  made 
The  heirs  of  hell  and  woe  ; 
Since  Christ  for  all  the  ransom  paid, 
To  heav'n  they  all  must  go. 


HYMN  CLV.     L.  M.  . 

A  song  for  Morning  and  Evening.      Lam.  \\\\ 
23.     Isa.  xiv.  7. 

1  1\/TY  God,  how  endless  is  thy  love  I 
xVJl  Thy  gifts  are  ev'ry  ev'ning  new; 
And  morning  mercies  from  above, 
Gently  distil  like  early  dew. 

2  Thou  spread'st  the  curtains  of  the  night- 
Great  Guardian  of  my  sleeping  hours  ; 
Thy  sov'reign  word  restores  the  light, 
And  quickens  all  my  drowsy  pow'rs, 

3  I  yield  my  pow'rs  to  thy  command, 
To  thee  1  consecrate  my  days  : 
Perpetual  blessings  from  thine  hard 
Demand  perpetual  songs  of  praises 


HYMNS.  171 

HYMN  CfcV*.     S.  M. 

&%e  sting  of  dwith    U    sin  ;  and  the;  strength, 
of  sin  is  the  Law, 

VrT^HE  sting  of  death  is  sin  ; 
X     The  strength  of  sin  the  law  ; 
The  fear  oi  death  is  then  its  stinr^;, 
As  death  from  sin  we  draw. 

2  t'ho'  where  no  laws'exist, 
Transgression  is  not  found  j: 
Yet  men  -who  there  do  ill,  at  lis*, 
Their  souls  with  guilt  may^vvcund. 

3  For  where  no  law  divine 
The  Lord    to  men  imparts; 

lie  there  by  nature's  light  henign, 
Gives  rules  to  guide  their  hearts. 

,4  Within  their  bosoms  there, 
Which  he  at  will  controuls, 
lie  writes  his  common  law  with  caret 
And  them  as  subjects  holds. 

5  This  is  the  conscience  then, 
To  all  on  earth  who  dwell  5 
Accusing  or  excusing  men. 
As  ill  they  do  or  well. 


HYMN  CLVII.    L,  M 

kk  The  ivicktd  shall  not  go  unpunished^1 

I  TI7HEN   men    offend    the    Law    th< 
VV  know, 


47%  HYMNS. 

They  suffer  for  it  here  below  ; 

Because  the  Author  of  mankind 

Has  punishment  and  crimes  combined. 

2  Men  capable  of  different  crimes, 
Commit  the  same  at  different  times  ; 
And  meet  correction  for  the  same, 
Thro'  bodily  or  mental  pain. 

3  Each  has  his  share  of  bliss  and  woe, 
As  good  and  ill  they  act  and  know  ; 
Since  each  important  deed  and  choice, 
Gives  cause  to  tremble  or  rejoice. 

4  For  crimes  of  ev'ry  name  and  size, 
Present  or  future  fears  arise, 
Whose  pain  is  punishment  full  light, 
For  crimes  which  never  came  to  light. 

5  Fear  in  a  moment  to  destroy 
The  banquet  of  unlawful  joy  ; 
And  turn  the  pleasure  into  pain, 
Which  they  by  breach  of  law  obtain. 

6  Hence  men  in  vain  shall  try  to  draw 
Bliss  from  breach  of  wholesome  law  ; 
As  all  the  pleasure  thence  they  gain, 
Is  balanc'd  by  connected  pain, 

7  If  hastily,  or  if  by  plan, 
Against  the  law  one  kills  a  man, 
And  none  should  find  it  out  below? 
3y  God  he  can't  unpunish'd  go  ! 


HYMNS*  1/3 

HVMN  CLYI1I.    L,  M. 

Qn  the  ne%u^  or  second  birth.— John  hi. 

1  /CHRIST  JESUS  whom  the  Father  gay* 
\j  The  ends  of  all  the  earth  to  save, 
Assures  us  none  can  go  to  heav'n 

To  whom  the  new  birth  is  not  giv'n,    • 

2  Tho'  often  ask'd  when  here  on  earth, 
What  was  the  nature  of  this  birth  ; 
Yet  he  no  answer  gave  direct 

From  which  its  meaning  to  collect, 

3  As  to  its  course  and  place,  we  find, 
He  in  the  darkness  left  the  mind  ; 
Comparing  it  to  winds  that  blow, 
Whose  cause  we  guess  but  do  not  know, 

4  As  ?t\vas  his  meat  and  drink  to  do 
His  father's  will  in  ev'ry  view  ; 

He  would  have  made  this  subject  plain, 
If  God  ha<l  bade  him  do  the  same. 

5  God  who  his  creatures  here  doth  sway, 
To  none  reveals  his  dying  day, 

He  oilier  truths  as  well  conceals, 
Till  his  good  pleasure  them  reveals^ 

6  This  needful  birth  for  ev'ry  one, 
Is,  from  its  nature,  yet  to  come  ; 
It  must  of  course,  (as  'tis  divine^ 
]Se  after  men  this  life  resign. 

P  2 


174  HYMNS. 

HYMN  CLIX.     C.  M. 

Ideas  of  the  second  birth,  as  most    consistent 
with  Scripture  and  Reason. 

1  T?  XCEPT  a  man  be  born  again, 
■  j  He  cannot  go  to  heav'n, 

And  with  that  glorious  being  reign, 
By  whom  his  life  is  giv'n, 

2  As  by  a  nat'ral  birth  we  came 
Into  existence  here  ; 

So  of  the  spirit  born  again, 
In  heaven  we  appear, 

2  When  any  soul  of  Adam's  fled 
From  this  frail  stage  of  pain  I 
Of  him  it  truly  may  be  said, 
That  he  is  born  again. 

4  For  to  be  born  again  implies 
A  second  advent  into  life  ; 

Then  to  the  new  birth  none  arrive, 
While  in  this  vale  of  strife. 

5  Should  we  forever  here  remain 
How  sad  our  case  would  be  ; 
As  we  could  not  be  born  again, 
Nor  joys  immortal  see, 

6  But  the  great  God  of  heav'n  and  earth, 
Who  sent  us  here  in  love, 

Will  give  to  all  the  second  birth, 
And  them  receive  above, 


HYMNS.  175 

HYMN  CLX.     By  M. 

*  He  thajt  is  born  of  Gdd  cannot  siny"  &c, 

i   TTE  that  is  born  of  God, 
Ax  Has  lost  the  pow'r  to  sin  ! 
Of  course,  has  left  the  mortal  clog, 
No  more  to  dwell  therein. 

2  We  scripture  proof  have  got 
Of  truth  we  now  proclaim, 
No  person  lives  and  sinneth  not, 
While  in  this  mortal  frame. 

$  As  all  are  sinners  her6 
Who  wear  the  human  form  ; 
We,  who  as  flesh  and  blood  appear, 
Of  women  are  but  born. 

4  As  none    are  born  of  God, 
While  here  enjoying  breath  ; 
This  as  the  truth  be  known  abroad  ; 
This  birth  is  after  death, 

5  Thus  when  we  quit  this  clod  5 
In  which  we  sin  as  men  ; 
We  by  the  agency  of  God? 
Shall  all  be  born  again. 


HYMN  CLXI.     r*. 

The  man  that  fell  amongst  thieve* » 

I    TESUS  Christ,  my  soul  believe*, 
#1   Fell  himself  amongst  the  thieves, 


476 


HYMNS. 


Who  from  him  his  garments  tore> 
Leaving  him  in  wounds  and  gore, 

2  Soon  by  chance  there  came  at  least 
Down  that  way  a  certain  priest) 
Who  the  suff'rer  having  spy'd 
Travel'd  by  him  on  one  side* 

£  Then  to  him  another  came, 
Who  a  Levite  was  by  name  ; 
Who  the  suff'rer  having  ey'd, 
Pass'd  him  by  on  th'  other  side. 

4  Then  a  third  man  coming  nigh. 
On  the  suff'rer  cast  his  eye  ; 
Whose  condition,  gore  and  smart, 
Touch'd  the  feelings  of  his  heart* 

5  This,  the  good  Samaritan, 
Had  compassion  on  the  man  ; 
Kindly  dress'd  his  wounds  for  him5 
Pouring  oil  and  wine  therein. 

6  Setting  him  on  his  own  beast, 
Soon  to  him  he  gave  a  feast ; 
Having  borne  him  to  the  inn, 
Giving  him  each  needful  thing. 

£  On  the  morrow  he,  at  will, 
Paid  for  him  the  landlord's  bill 
And  departing  left  him  there. 
At  his  cost  for  board  and  care, 

$  Which  the  neighbor— which  the  mau^» 
Levite  I     Priest  ?-— Samaritan  ? 


HYMNS.  177 

He  who  did  him  favor  show  *<-*■ 
"  Go  thou  then,  and  likewise  do.'' 


HYMN  CLXII.    C.  M. 

Breathing  after  the  Holy  Sfdrit. 

1  /^  OME,  Holy  Spirit,  heav'nly  Dove, 
V_y   With  all  thy  quick'ning  pow'rs, 
Kindle  a  flame  of  sacred  love, 

In  these  cold  hearts  of  ours. 

2  Look  how  we  grovel  here  below, 

Fond  of  these  trifling  toys: 
Our  souls  can  neither  fly  nor  go 
To  reach  eternal  joys. 

3  In  vain  we  tune  our  formal  songs, 

In  vain  we  strive  to  rise  ; 
Hosannas  languish  on  our  tongues, 
And  our  devotion  dies. 

4  Dear  Lord !  and  shall  we  ever  live 

At  this  poor  dying  rate  ? 
Our  love  so  faint,  so  cold  to  thee, 
And  thine  to  us  so  great ! 

5  Come,  Holy  Spirit,  heav'nly  Dove, 

With  all  thy  quick'ning  pow'rs, 
Come,  shed  abroad  a  Saviour's   love, 
And  that  shall  kindle  ours. 


178  HYMNS. 

HYMNCLXIII.    C.  JVL 

Jf  the  newly  enlightened  soul  by  the  grace  of 
Gcd>  wills  the  salvation  of  ally  God  then 
wills  the  same  and  will,  effect  it, 

1  T^HE  man  enligbten-d  from  on  highs 

1     By  Christ  the  beav'nly  Dove, 
Invites  the  stranger  standing  by, 
To  come  and  taste  his  love. 

2  He  tells  him  of  the  heart-felt  joye. 
The  love  of  Christ  bestows  ; 

And  while  the  theme  his  tongue  employ 
His  visage  beams  repose. 

3.  He  tells  him  of  the  spacious  room, 
There  is  in  Christ  for  all  ; 
And  says  he  longs  that  all  should  come. 
Who  did  in  Adam  fall. 

4  Thus  says  he  not  to  any  one, 
Tho'  many  are  in  view, 

«'  To  Christ  you  need  not  try  to  come, 
He  did  not  die  for  you." 

5  But  ravish'd  with  the  charms  of  Chrisfc 
By  faith  now  understood  ; 

He  wishes  all  eternal  life  ; 
A  wish  humane  and  good. 

6  If  this  desire  that  all  may  live, 
Flows  from  one  drop  of  grace  ; 
The  Ocean  whence  it  came,  will  give 
Salvation  all  our^  race. 


HYMNS.  *V> 

HYMN  CLXIV.    C.  M. 

The  death  of  Infants. 

1  T^HY  life,  I  read,  my  dearest  Lord, 

1     With  transport  all  divine  ; 
Thine  image  trace  in  ev'ry  word, 
Thy  love  in  ev'ry  line. 

2  Methinks  I  see  a  thousand  charms, 
Spread  o'er  thy  lovely  face  ; 
When  Infants  in  thy  tender  arms, 
Receive  the  smiling  grace. 

a  I  take  these  tender  lambs,"said  he, 
And  lay  them  on  my  breast  ; 
Protection  they  shall  find  in  me  ; 
In  me,  be  ever  blest. 

At  Death  may  the  bands  of  life  unloose*. 
But  can't  dissolve  my  love  ; 
Millions  of  Infant  souls  compose 
The  family  above. 

5  Their  feeble  frames  my  pow'r   shall  raise, 
And  mould  with  hrov'nly  skill  ; 

I'll  give  them  tongues  to  sing  my  praise  % 
And  hands  to  do  my  will. 

6  His  words  the  happy  parents  Hear, 
And  shout  with  joys  divine  ; 
Dear  Saviour,  all  we  have  and  ar% 
Shall  be  forever  thine, 


180  HYMNS. 

HYMN  CLXV.    C.  M. 

<•  God  is  good  unto  allf'—or    description  of 
moral  goodness  amongst  mankind.     ; 

1  /^  OODNESS  consists  in  doing  good 
VJX  To  those  who  do  us  wrong, 
When  we  could  hurt  them,  if  we  would, 
Because  more  wise  or  strong. 

2  To  do  a  kindness  but  to  those 
Whom  we  as  friends  can  trust, 

No  actual  goodness  therefore  shows? 
Altho'  the  Hct  is  just. 

3  If  we  our  kindnesses  restrain 
To  such  as  will  requite, 

To  goodness  we  can  lay  no  claim 
Altho'  the  deed  is  right. 

4  If  we'our  enemies  do  love, 
And  help  them  when  we  can  ; 
Then  we  resemble  God  above, 
For  he  is  good  to  man. 

5  While  we  appear'd  his  enemies 
By  our  transgressions  wide  ; 
His  only  son,  by  his  decrees, 
For  their  remission  died. 


HYMN  CLXVI.    C.  M. 

The  preference  of  heavenly  to  earthly  bread 
or,  Jesus  the  bread  of  life. 

1    *\7T7  HY  do  we  murmur  and  repine 
\  V     That  bread  is  scarce  and  dear  ; 


HYMNS,  i8l 

Short  at  the  longest  is  the  time, 
That  we  shall  want  it  here. 

2  Why  try  we  harder  to  be  fed, 
With  food  the  earth  supplies  5 
Than  to  enjoy  celestial  bread 
Whose  eater  never  dies  ? 

3  Then  let  us  moderate  our  strife 
To  get  the  mortal  bread, 
Since  Jesus  is  the  bread  of  life, 
By  which  the  soul  is  fed. 

4  While  here  we  take  each  prudent  mean 
And  are  by  victuals  fed  ; 

May  we  above  it  Christ  esteem, 
Who  is  the  living  bread. 

5  Lord,  give  us  bread,  as  bread  we  need, 
Our  bodies  to  supply  ; 
Meanwhile  our  souls  on  Jesus  feed, 
And  they  shall  never  die. 


HYMN  CLXVIT.    C.  M, 

The  fast  enemy  to  be  destroyed  i*   deathf 

\  O  IN  is  the  common  enemy, 
O  Coeval  with  our  breath'; 
But  thro'  Immanuel's  agency, 
It  quits  us  at  our  death. 

3  Of  all  the  foes  which  do  annoy. 
The  sops  of  mortal  breath, 
Q 


182  HYMtfS. 

The  last  that  Jesus  will  destroy, 
Is  the  grim  tyrant,  death. 

3  Since  death's  our  last,  dread  enemy. 
And  death  itself  shall  die  ; 

So  all  will  have  felicity, 

And  reign  with  Christ  on  high. 

4  We  thank  the  Lender  of  our  breath, 
From  whom  salvation  flows, 

That  our  Immanual  conquer'd  death, 
The  last  of  all  our  foes. 


HYMN  CLXVIII.    C.  M. 

High  Priest  merciful  and  faithful. 

\  \\  7"1TH  joy  we  meditate  the  grace 
V  V     Of  our  High  Priest  above  ; 
His  heart  is  made  of  tenderness, 
His  bowels  melt  with  love. 

2  Touch'd  with  a  sympathy  within, 
He  knows  our  feeble  frame, 

He  knows  what  sore  temptations  mean, 
For  he  has  felt  the  same. 

3  But  spotless,  innocent,  and  pure, 
The  great  Redeemer  stood, 
While  Satan's  fiery  darts  he  bore, 
And  did  resist  to  blood. 

4  He,  in  the  days  of  feeble  flesh, 
Pour'd  out  his  cries  and  tears ; 


HYMNS.  183 

And,  in  his  measure,  feels  afresh 
What,  ev'ry  member  bears. 

5  He'll  never  quench  the  smoaking  flax. 
But  raise  it  to  a  flame  ; 
The  bruised  reed  he  never  breaks, 
Nor  scorns  the  meanest  name. 

$  Then  let  our  humble  faith  address 
His  mercy  and  his  pow'r  ; 
We  shall  obtain  deliv'ring  grace, 
In  the  distressing  hour. 


HYMN  CLXIX.     L.  M. 

The  only  perfect. 

\  f^i  OULD  I  of  all  perfection  boast, 
V-^  As  pure  as  that  which  Adam  lost, 
I'd  sacrifice  it  to  thy  blood, 
My  Christ,  my  all,  my  only  good, 

2  Were  I  as  Abrah'm  strong  in  faith. 
And  boldly  stedfast  unto  death  ; 
I'd  bid  my  faithfulness  adieu, 
And  Jesus  only  faithful  view. 

-3  If  I  more  meek  than  Moses  were, 
Quite  free  from  anger,  strife,  or  fear  ^ 
Yet  this  I  gladly  would  despise, 
And  Jesus'  meekness  only  prize. 


4  Was  I  as  Job  submissive  still 
Patient,  resign'd  in  ev'ry  ill  ; 


1BI  HYMNS. 

Yet  all  should  fade  before  his  er»ssrj 
Compar'd  with  him,  it  is  but  dross. 

5  If  I  was  wise  as  Solomon, 

Like  him  with  zeal  and  ardor  shone  f 
Like  him  Pd  vain  and  foo'ish  see 
My  wisdom,  zeal,  yea  all,  but  thee. 

6  Had  I  an  angel's  purity, 
Yea,  even  this  I  would  deny  ; 
Nor  £ood  confess  in  name  or  thing, 
But  Christ  my  Lord,  my  life,  my  King 


HYMN  CLXX.    L.  Mi\ 

meet. 

S   TESUS,  we  bless  thy  Father's  name  * 
J   Thy  God  and  ours  are  both  the  same  f 
'What  heav'nly  blessings  from  his  throne, 
Flow  down  to  sinners  through  his  Son  1 

2  Christ  be  my  first  elect  he  said, 

Then  chose  our  souls  in  Christ  our  head 
before  he  gave  the  mountains  birth, 
Or  laid  foundations  for  the  earth. 

3  Thus  did  eternal  love  begin, 

To  raise  us  from  our  death  and  sin 4 
Our  characters  were  then  decreed  ; 
Blameless  in  love,  a  holy  seed. 

4  Predestinated  to  be  sons, 

Born  by  degrees,  but  chose  at  orrce,; 


HYMNS.  185 

A  new  regenerated  race« 

To  praise  the  glory  of  his  grace. 

5  With  Christ,  our  Lord,  we  share  a  part 
In  the  affections  of  his  heart  ; 
Nor  shall  our  souls  be  thence  rembv'd, 
Till  he  forgets  his  first  belov'd. 


HYMN  CLXXI.     L.  M. 

King  of  nations. 

1  TESUS  shall  reign  where'er  the  sun 
J    Does  his  successive  journeys  run; 
His  kingdom  stretch  from  shore  to  shore. 
Till  moons  shall  wax  and  wane  no  more. 

2  For  him  shall  endless  pray'r  be  made, 
And  praises  throng  to  crown  his  head ; 
His  name  like  sweet  perfume  shall  rise. 
With  every  morning  sacrifice. 

3  People  and  realms  of  ev'ry  tongue, 
Dwell  on  his  love  with  sweetest  song^; 
And  infant  voices  shall  proclaim, 
Their  early  blessings  on  his  name. 

4  Blessings  abound  where'er  he  reigns, 
The  pris'ner  leaps  to  lose  his  chains  ; 
The  weary  find  eternal  rest, 

And  all  the  sons  of  want  are  blest 

5  Where  he  displays  his  healing  pow'r, 

Death  and  the  curse  are  known  no  more  $ 
Q  2 


186  HYMKS. 

In  him  the  tribes  of  Adam  boast 
More  blessings  than  their  father  Ijcwft 

6  Let  ev'ry  creature  rise  and  bring 
Peculiar  honors  to  their  king ; 
Angels  descend  with  songs  again, 
And  earth  repeat  the  long  Amen. 


HYMN  CLXXII.    ft* 

Ml  in  All 

1  /"lOME,  though  we  can  truly  sing, 
V^  In  our  flesh  dwells  no  good  thing ; 
Yet  on  him  who  gives  us  all, 

We're  embolden'd  still  to  call. 

2  Blind  and  foolish  once  were  we, 
Christ  our  wisdom  now  we  see ; 
In  this  wisdom,  we  confide, 
We  by  this  are  justifi'd. 

3  Once  in  breaking  God's  command, 
Doom'd  to  death  beneath  his  hand  ; 
Now  we're  cali?d  to  own  and  bless 
Jesus  Christ  our  righteousness. 

4  Without  purity  of  heart, 

Truth  divine  will  say,  «  depart  ,** 
But  this  holiness  we  find, 
In  the  Saviour  of  mankind. 

5  Many,  mighty  are  our  foes  I 
Human  these,  angelic  those  | 


HYMNS.  i87 

Where  for  refuge  shall  we  flee  : 
Christ  our  great  redemption  see  I 

\  Seraphs,  flames  of  sacred  fire. 
View  this  myst'ry  with  desire  ; 
Hark  I  the  bright  enrapturd   throng 
Catch,  and  raise  the  grateful  song. 

7  O,  ye  thrones  of  heav'nly  light, 

Since  you're  sav'd  from,  endless  night; 
And  since  we  are  rais'd  to  you> 
Let  us  still  the  song  pursue. 


HYMN  CLXXIIL     C.  M. 

Prayer  for  all  Missionaries. 

\   /~^i  REAT  God,  the  nations  of  the  earth 
VX  Are  by  creation  thine  ; 
And  in  thy  works  by  all  beheld, 
Thy  radient  glories  shine. 

%  But,  Lord,  thy  greater  love  has  sent 
Thy  gospel  to  mankind, 
Unveiling  what  rich  stores  of  grace 
Are  treasur'd  in  thy  mind. 

£  Lord,  when  shall  these  glad  tidings  spread 
The  spacious  earth  around  ? 
'Till  ev'ry  tribe  and  ev'ry  soul 
Shall  hear  the  joyful  sound  ; 

4  Oh  when  shall  Afric's  sable  sons 
Eniov  the  heav'nly  word  { 


188  HYMNS. 

And  vassals  long  enslav'd  become 
The  freemen  of  the  Lord  ? 

5  When  shall  th'  untutor'd  heathen  tribes, 
A  dark  bewilder'd  race, 

Sit  down  at  our  Immanuers  feet, 
And  learn  and  feel  his  grace  ? 

6  Smile,  Lord,  on  each  divine  attempt 
To  spread  the  gospel's  rays ; 

And  build  on  sin's  demolished  throne 
The  temples  of  thy  praise  I 


HYMN  CLXXIV.    L.  M.  [H.  Ballov. 

All  things  are  dross  in  comparison  with  Christ, 

1  f~^  O  search  the  fields  of  nature  through, 
Vj  Observe  her  various  works  and  ways  ; 
Learn  all  the  ancients  ever  knew, 

And  seek  for  worldly  wealth  or  praise  : 

2  Put  on  the  crowns  that  monarchs  wear, 
High  wave  their  sceptres  in  your  hand  y 
And  make  your  humble  vassals  stare, 
And  send  your  edicts  through  the  land  : 

3  Command  the  bosom  of  the  sea, 
To  waft  your  vessels  to  and  fro  ; 

Of  wealth  and  grandeur  hold  the  key, 
And  bid  your  armies  come  and  go  ; 

4  Of  all  these  acquisitions,  say, 
Can  one,  or  all,  give  you  conjLent  ? 


HYMNS.  189 

Or  can  they  lengthen  out  your  day, 
Or  stay  the  hand  of  death,  when  sent  I 

5  The  humble  soul  who  begs  his  bread, 
But  has  in  Christ  a  living  faith  ; 
Without  a  house  to  lay  his  head, 

In  peace  can  trust  what  Jeus  saith. 

6  Nor  will  he  envy  all  your  pride, 

Or  crave  the  wealth  by  you  possessM  ; 
He  hath  his  carnal  minddeny'd. 
And  enter- d  into  ascred  rest. 


HYMN  CLXXV      L.  M, 

Ritin  from  Heaven. 

S  show'rs.on  meadows  newly  mown, 
Jesus  shall  shed  his  blessings  dowi , 
Crown'd  with  whose  life — infusing  drops, 
Earth  shall  renew  her  blissful  crops. 


'A 


2  Lands  that  beneath  a  burning  sky, 
Have  long  been   desolate  and  dry, 
Th'  effusions  of  his  love  shall  share, 
And  sudden  greens  and  herbage  wear, 

8  The  dews  and  rains,  in  all  their  store, 
Drenching  the  pastures  o'er  and  o?er, 
Are  not  so  copious  as  the  grace, 
Which  sanctifies  and  saves  our  racs. 


190  HYMNS, 

4  As  in  soft  silence  vernal  show'rs 

Descend,  and  cheer  the  fainting  flaw'rs  i. 

So  in  the  secrecy  of  love, 

Falls  the  sweet  influence  from  above. 

That  heav'nly  influence  let  me  find, 
In  holy  silence  of  the  mind  ; 
While  ev'ry  grace  maintains  its  bloom, 
Diffusing  wide  its  rich  perfume. 

6  Nor  let  these  blessings  be  confin'd 
To  me,  but  pour'd  on  all  mankind, 
Till  eartlfs  wide  wastes  in  verdure  rise, 
And  a  young  Eden  bless  our  eyes. 


HYMN  CLXXVI.     9.  M. 

7 he  blessedness  of  gosfiel-times  :  ory  the  rev- 
elation of   Christ  to  Jews  and   Gentiles.- 
Isa.  v.  2,  7,  8,  9,  19.     Matt.  xiii.   16,  1 

1  TTOW  beauteous  are  their  feet 
JLjL  Who  stand  on  Zion's  hill, 
Who  bring  salvation  on  their  tongues. 

And  words  of  peace  reveal  ' 

2  How  charming  is  their  voice  ! 

How  sweet  their  tiding*  are  ! 
«  Zion,  behold  thy  Saviour  King, 
"  He  reigns  and  triumphs  here.' 

5  How  happy  are  our  ears, 

WhiQh  hear  this  joyful  sound, 


HYMNS.  191 

Which  kings  and  prophets  waited  for, 
And  sought  but  never  found  .' 

How  blessed  are  our  eyes, 

Which  see  this  heav'nly  light : 

Prophets  and  kings  desir'd  it  long, 
But  died  without  the  sight. 

5  The  watchmen  join  their  voice, 

And  tuneful  notes  employ ; 
Jerusalem  breaks  forth  in  songs, 
And  deserts  learn  the  joy. 

6  The  Lord  makes  bare  his  arm 

Through  all  the  earth  abroad  ; 
Let  ev'ry  nation  now  behold 
Their  Saviour  and  their  God. 


HYMN  CLXXVII.    C.  M. 

A  jiroafiect  of  heaven  makes  death  easy, 

1  fTHHERE  is  a  land  of  pure  delight, 

X       Where  saints  immortal  reign. 
Infinite  day  excludes  the  night, 
And  pleasures  banish  pain. 

2  There  everlasting  spring  abides, 

And  never-with'ring  flow'rs  : 

Death,  like  a  narrow  sea,  divides 

This  heav'nly  land  from  ours. 

3  [Sweet  fields  beyond  the   swelling  floctJ, 

Stand  drest  in  living  green  ; 


192  hymas. 

So  to  the  Jews  old  Canaan  stood, 
While  Jordan  roll'd  between.} 

4  But  tim'rous  mortals  start  and  shrink". 

To  cross  this  narrow  sea, 
And  linger,  dhiv'ring  on  the  brink, 
Thro'  fear  to  launch  away. 

5  Oh,  could  we  make  our  doubts  remove. 

These  gloomy  doubts  which  rise, 
And  see  the  Canaan  which  we  love,. 
With  unbeclouded  eyes  I 

6  Could  we  but  climb  where  Moses  stood, 

And  view  the  landscape  o'er  ; 
Not  Jordan's  stream,  nor  death's  cold  flood, 
Should  fright  us  from  the  shore. 


HYMN  CLXXV1II.     S.  M, 
Chrises  Commission.-^ John  hi,  16,  V 

1  TJ  AISE  your  triumphant  songs 
XV     To  an  immortal  tune, 

Let  the  wide  earth  resound  the  deeds. 
Celestial  grace  has  done. 

2  Sing  how  eternal  love 

Its  chief  Beloved  chose  ; 
And  bid  him  raise  our  wretched  rac£. 
From  their  abyss  of  woes. 

3.  His  hand  no  thunder  bears, 

Nor  terror  clothes  his  brow  ; 


HYMNS,  108 


tyo  holts  to  drive  our  guilty  soub 
To  fiercer  flames  below. 

4  Now,  sinners,  dry  your  tears, 

Let  hopeless  sorrow  cease  ; 
Bow  to  the  sceptre  of  his  love, 
And  take  the  offer'd  peace. 

5  Lord,  we  obey  thy  call  ; 

We  lay  an  humble  claim 
To  the  salvation  thou  hast  brought, 
And  love  and  praise  thy  name, 


HYMN  CLXXIX.    L.  M. 

Th£  will  of  the  creature  subservient  to  the  pur- 
pose of  GocPs  decree.     Rev.  iv.  ij. 

1  TEHOVAH  hath  a  certain  aim 

*J    In  ev'ry  thing  his  hand  doth  frame  ; 
And  suits  its  nature  to  its  end, 
To  which  alone  he  makes  it  tend. 

2  The  person  who  this  truth  denies, 
Believes  God  neither  strong  nor  wise  5 
For  ign'rance  has  no  end  in  vie  w, 
And  weakness  can  no  purpose  do. 

3  If  God  by  wisdom,  pow'r  and  skill 
A  purpose  rests  upon  man's  will ; 
Yet  must  his  will,  in  all  respects, 
Move  only  as  that  end  directs. 

4'  God  by  his  wisdom  calculates^ 
R 


194}  HYMNS. 

And  by  his  energy  creates  ; 
And  has,  in  goodness  to  our  kind, 
His  glory  and  our  bliss  combin'd. 

HYMN  CLXXX.     S.  M. 

God's  love  to  man  the  moving  cause  ofChrist'i 
death. 

4  TTC^E  read  that  God  is  love, 

V  V     Who  made  and  governs  all  ; 
And  that  he  sent  the  heav'nly  Dove 
Our  souls  from  death  to  call. 

2  God  lov'd  the  world  so  well, 
He  gave  his  only  Son 

To  save  our  souls  from  death  and  hell  • 
His  will  by  Christ  is  done. 

3  God  loves  the  sinner  first. 
Which  love  to  him  made  known  : 
The  sinner  loves  his  Maker  just, 
And  trusts  in  him  alone. 

4  To  all  thy  love  reveal, 
Thou  Author  of  us  all  ; 

That  they  for  thee  true  love  may  feej, 
And  Chrbt  their  Friend  extol. 


H 


HYMN  CLXXXI.    L.  M. 

Potter  and  Clay. 

ATH  not  the  potter  pow'r  and  skill, 
From  the  same  lump  of  clay  at  vviii. 


HYMXS.  195 

To  make  one  vessel  to  his  fame, 
And  form  another  to  his  shame  ? 

2  What  potter  wise  did  ever  make 
A  vessel  purposely  to  break  ? 
Or  fashion'd  one  exceeding  ill, 
To  make  another  show  his  skill  ? 

3  Cannot  one  vessel  good  be  wrought, 
Unless  another's  fit  for  nought  ? 

Or  cannot  one  for  use  be  kept, 
If  th'  other  not  aside  is  set  ? 

4  Does  any  prudent  potter  frame 
A  vessel  without  end  or  aim  ? 
And  if  it  answers  not  his  view, 
Is  he  a  workman  wise  and  true  ? 

5  Or  if  by  him  'tis  understood, 
There's  evil  clay  as  well  as  good, 
That  may  on  equal  terms  be  had  ; 
Which  will  he  use,  the  good  or  bad  I 

6  His  clay  at  hand  the  potter  takes, 
And  as  he  likes  his  vessel  makes ; 
Its  form  and  size  he  both  commands, 
By  judgment  good  and  skilful  hands. 

7  What  answers  not  the  potter's  aim, 
Puts  him,  if  any  one,  to  shame  ; 

If  in  the  clay  no  fault  be  found, 

When  temper'd  well  and  justly  ground. 

8  Is  God  a  potter  understood  ? — 
H'll  make  no  vessel  then  but  good  ; 


I<96  HYMNS* 

True  wisdom  all  his  wares  display; 
Of  course,  he  none  will  cast  away.  i 


HYMN  CLXXXH.    C.  M. 

Anchor  of  the  Soul. 

4  TXT^  b*ess  tnee'  Lord,  thou  ever  juft, 
V  V     For  hope  to  travel  by— . 
That  though  the  body  turns  to  dust, 
The  soul  shall  never  die. 

2  Bless'd  hope  of  Immortality  1 
Of  endless  joys  to  come  ! 

It  gives  our  souls  felicity, 
While  on  our  journey  home. 

3  Though  doubts  and  fears  assail   the  heattt 
When  law  we  take  for  grace ; 

Yet  hope  succeeds  and  takes  our  part, 
When  Jesus  shows  his  face. 

4  This  hope  which  rests  upon  th«  words 
Of  him  who  cannot  lie  5 

Sweet  consolation's  balm  affords 
To  that  which  cannot  die  ! 

5  While  pain  of  body  tells  the  mind, 
j.    That  mortal  is  our  breath, 

In  hope's  fond  arms  the  soul  reclin'd, 
With  courage  thinks  on  death. 

ft  Lord,  let  this  hope  of  endless  grace, 
Which  thou  hast  kindly  giv'n, 


HYMNS.  197 

Be  felt  by  all  thro'  life's  short  space, 
Then  realize!  in  heav'n. 


HYMN  CLXXX1II.     L.  M. 

Salvation  immortal ;  but  faith  and  hofie  mor- 
tal ;  the  latter,  therefore,  not  essential  to 
the  former. 

1  f^\  OME,  let  us  take  a  sharp  survey, 
V_y    And  see  what's  from  an  endless  day  j 
Come,  let  us  search  with  faithful  eyes, 
And  see  what  doth  in  time  arise. 

2  Salvation  was  in  Christ  the  Son, 
Before  creation  was  begun  ; 
From  endless  ages  it  was  sure  ; 
To  endless  ages  must  endure. 

S  But  things  which  do  to  time  pertain. 
Will  pass  away  in  time  again  ; 
Ail  that  begins  in  time,  my  friend. 
In  time  will  surely  have  an  end. 

4  I  find  that  faith  and  unbelief, 
Sickness,  and  sorrow,  pain  and  grief  ; 
Did  not  exist,  till  time  begun. 

Nor  can  exist  when  time  is  done. 

5  By  this  I  find,  that  unbelief 
Cannot  immortal   render  grief  j 

Nor  faith  nor  hope  cause  endless  peace.. 
Because  when  time  is  o'er,,  thev  cease, 
R2  ' 


198  HYMNS. 

6  When  spirits  leave  their  mortal  dust, 
Then  they  return  to  God  the  Just ; 
Where  there  is  neither  sin  nor  griefy 
Nor  faith,  nor  hope,  nor  unbelief. 

7  Man  hopes  for  what  he  has  not  got  ^ 
Has  faith  in  that  which  he  sees  not ; 
In  what  he  sees  he  has  no  faith, 
Nor  can  he  hope  for  what  he  hath. 

5  When  the  Redeemer's  blood  was  spilt, 
His  blood  aton'd  for  ev'ry  guilt ; 
In  him  we  all  presented  are 
Before  the  Father,  clean  and  faiiv 


HYMN  CLXXXIV>    C.  M.    [H.  BAtior, 

The  rage  of  the  enemy, 

J  T    ORD,  what  a  rage  thy  foes  are  in  ! 
I   J  They  hate  thy  boundless  grace  ; 
Deny  thy  pow'r  to  finish  sin, 
Or  sanctify  our  race. 

2  Thy  justice  they  with  vengeance  arm, 
Oppos'd  to  mercy  mild; 

Nor  can  their  harmony  discern, 
Sinners  to  reconcile* 

3  Their  fond  delusions  they  embrace, 
And  think  themselves  secure  ; 

In  part  by  works,  and  part  by  grace, 
They're  holy,  just  and  pure. 


HYMNS.  IDS 

But  we,  dear  Lord,  would  humbly  own, 
Salvation  all  of  thee  ; 
Would  move  our  suit  at  mercy's  throne, 
From  sin  to  set  us  free. 


HYMN  CLXXXV.    L.  M.    [H.  Ballot 

He  hath  done  all  things  well. 

h  f~*i  OME,  let  us  join  in  sacred  songs, 
V_y  With  sweetest  music  on  our  tongues  > 
Let  ev'ry  voice  conspire  to  tell, 
Our  Saviour  hath  done  all  things  well. 

2  Under  the  law  he  came  for  us, 
And  for  our  sins  was  made  a  curse ; 
He  bore  our  crimes,  which  on  him  fell, 
Our  Saviour  hath  done  all  things  well* 

-3  The  legal   dispensation  clos'd, 
When  Jesus  from  the  dead  arose ; 
AH  righteousness  he  did  fulfil ; 
Our  Saviour  bath  done  all  things  well. 

4  He'll  finish  sin,  and  man  restore, 
All  creatures  shall  their  God  adore  ; 
The  anthem  long,  and  loud  shall  sweij, 
And  say  he  hath  done  all  things  well. 

HYMN  CLXXXVI.    C.  M.      [H.  Ballou* 
All  things  firaise  God. 


'N 


OW  God  I  see  in  ev'ry  thing, 
His  works  all  shout  his  praise  ; 


200  HYMNS. 

I  would  them  join  and  loudly  sing, 
And  tell  his  wond'rous  ways. 

2  The  sun,  the  moon,  and  ev'ry  star, 
The  earth  with  ev'ry  flood  ; 
Extend  his  honors  bright  and  fan 
And  tell  us  of  a  God. 

3  The  diff'rent  seasons  he  ordains. 
And  fills  the  earth  with  food  ; 

The  winter  snows  and  summer  rains 
Declare  that  God  is  good. 

4  The  cattle  on  a  thousand  hills,     . 
He  makes  his  constant  care  ; 
With  needed  good  the  hungry  fills, 
And  they  his  praise  declare. 

5  Fish  in  the  sea  of  ev'ry  form, 
Each  on  his  goodness  lives  ; 
And  ev'ry  bird,  and  ev'ry  worm, 
Receives  but  what  he  gives. 

6  O  man  !  recount  the  many  ways, 
In  which  the  Lord  is  kind; 

And  join  all  creatures  in  his  praise, 
_With  all  thy  pow'rs  of  mind. 


HY  MN  CLXXXVH.     S.  M.      [II.  Ba^cuJ 

Christ  the  head  of  every  man 

I   "VT  OT  only  of  the  Jew, 

1A ■■  Is  Christ  the  living  head  ; 


HYMNS.  .     ?0T1 

But  surely  of  the  Gentile  too, 
Is  he  salvation  made. 

2  What  heav'nly  beauties  shine 
In  that  all  gracious  plan, 

Where  Christ  is  made,  by  the  Divine* 
The  head  of  ev'ry  man. 

3  How  strong  the  cords  which  bind 
The  body  to  the  head  ; 

And  they  by  which  each  member's  join'd, 
Of  which  the  body's  made  i 

-4  The  life,  which  is  the  blood, 
In  active  current  flows  ; 
And  from  the  heart,  the  crimson  flood 
To  ev'ry  member  goes. 

5  To  Jesus  we  are  bound, 
By  cords  of  love  and  truth  ; 

By  him  we're  sought  and  by  him  found. 
The  dew  drops  of  his  youth. 

6  In  such  a  union  join'd ; 
No  loss  shall  be  sustain'd  ; 

The  weakest  member  here  shall  find 
Its  strength  in  Christ  contain'd. 

HYMN  CLXXXVIII.    L.  M. 

Reproof  to  Hyfiocrites  ;  or,  the  inutility  of  self 
righteousness. 

1  /^OME  Pharisee  and  Hypocrite, 
Vy  Fall  down  and  worship  at  his  feet  * 


S0&  HYMNS. 

And  cease,  for  merit,  to  demand 
Eternal  life  at  Jesus'  hand- 

2  The  righteousness  by  you  possess'd, 
Is  filthy  rags  or  dross  at  best  • 
Unworthy  to  be  own  d  or  nam'd, 
Before  the  God  who  nature  fram'd. 

3  Dependent  on  the  pow'r  of  God, 
And  governed  by  his  holy  nod  ; 
Say,  on  what  ground  do  you  profess 
To  wear  the  robe  of  righteousness  i 

4  Have  you  that  spotless  garment  wrought, 
Which  works  nor  money  ever  bought  ? 
That  seamless  garment  Jesus  wore, 
When  on  the  cross  our  sins  he  bore  ? 

5  What  are  the  creed,  the  forma!  pray'r  ? 
The  sadden'd  faces  which  you  wear  ? 
These  coverings  ne'er  your  heart  can  hide 
From  God  by  wi.om  your  reins  are  try'd. 

6  Then    throw    away    your    home-wrought 

dress, 
And  trust  in  Jesus'  righteousness  ; 
H    is  our  righteousness  and  Lord, 
And  will  salvation  all  afford. 


HYMN  CLXXXJX.     C.  M. 

«  Behold  the  Lamb  of   God  who  taketh  aivatj 
the  sin  of   the  world  !** 

MORTALS,  by  faith  this  very  day, 
Behold  the  Lamb  of  God, 


HYMNS.  SOS 

Who  takes  the  world's  whole  sin  away,. 
And  rules  by  mercy's  rod  ! 

2-  The  great  Eternal's  love  was  such 
For  Adam  and  his  race  ; 
He  thought  it  would  not  be  too  much 
To  save  them  all  by  grace. 

3  As  God's  unchangeable  of  mind, 
Who  our  salvation  schem'd  ; 
He'll  save  from  sin  all  human  kind? 
As  C.hiist  hath  all  redeem'd. 

4  To  save  the  whole  he  claims  the  right? 
Because  they  are    his  own  : 

He  raises  them  from  hell  and  night, 
To  heav'n  their  native  home. 


HYMN  CXC.     C.  M.    [H.  Ballot 

There  is  no  peace  to  the    Wicked. 

I.   "XJTO  peace  my  starving  soul  can  find, 
„LN    In  sin's  deceitful  way  ; 
No  pleasant  fruits  to  cheer  the  mind, 
Nor  light  a  single  ray. 

2  A  guilty  conscience  grows  within, 
And  I  am  drown'd  in   grief  ; 

My  soul  abhors  that  monster,  sin, 
Dear  Savior  i  grant  relief. 

3  O,  why  should  men  in  sin  remain  2 
Why  walk  the  tiresome  way  ? 


201'  HYMNS. 

Lord,  may  each  sinner  grace  obtain, 
And  go  no  more  astray. 

4  Hast  thou  not  promis'd  in  thy  word, 
That  sin  shall  finish'd  be  ? 
Fufil  thy  testimonies,  Lord, 
And  set  the  sinner  free. 


HYMN  CXCI.    C.  M.     [H.  BAiior, 

Refientance. 

1  /"\    Is  my  heart  of  marble  made  ; 
\J)  Cold,  stupid  here  it  lies  ; 
My  sins  would  make  my  soul  afraid  ; 
My  heart  my  God  denies. 

7  Wretch,  that  I  am,  to  feel  so  hard  ! 
No  sparks  of  zeal  for  God  \ 
My  heart  with  iron  grates  is  barr'd  ; 
O,  melt  it,  Jesus'  blood  I 

3  Or  wilt  thou  take  the  stone  away, 
And  give  a  tender  mind  ? 

For  thee,  O  Lord,  I  humbly  pray, 
To  make  my  heart  more  kind  ! 

4  Then  gentle  streams  of  grace  shall  flow? 
And  make  my  bowels  move  ; 

Mercy  extending  to  each  foe, 
In  gentle  streams  of  love. 


HYMNS.  £03 

HYMN  CXCII.    S.  M.    [EL  Ballott. 

Mens  works  (hay,  wood  and  stubble)  to  be 
burned  ;  but  themselves  to  be  saved,  yet  so 
as  by  fire.     I  Cor.  hi.   15. 

i   (~^\  OD  hath  in  Zion  laid 
\J  A  precious  corner  stone, 
Which  he  salvation's  base   has  made  ; 
And  this  is  Christ  alone. 

2  Tho'  mortals  build  on  this. 
By  works  which  they  admire  ; 
It  never  will  procure  them  bliss, 
They'll  be  consumed  by  fire. 

3  The  fire  of  God  shall  try 
Their  works  of  selfish  kind  ; 

And  burn  them  up  like  stubble  dry, 
And  leave  no  trace  behind. 

4  He  who  has  thus  behav'd, 
And  lost  his  heart's  attire, 
Shallfie'ertheless  himself  be  sav'd, 
By  purifying  fire. 

5  By  fire  must  all  be  try'cT, 
And  all  must  suffer  loss  ; 

What's  worth  salvation  will  abide — 
The  rest  be  burn'd  as  dross. 


F 


HYMN  CXCII.     L.  M.      [H.  Ballou. 
To  be  dismissed  with  a  blessing. 

ROM  worship  now  thy  church  dismiss, 
But  not  without  thy   blessing,  Lord  ; 


206  HYMNS. 

O  may  we  taste  the  sacred  blissj 
And  meditate  upon  thy   word. 

2  Deep  rooted  in  each  honest  heart,    • 
Thy  word  of  truth,  O  make  it  grow  ! 
Much  fruit  oflove  may  it  impart, 
Where  all  the  gospel  graces  flow. 

3  Oft  may  these  pleasant  scenes   return, 
When  christians  meet  to  worship  thee  ; 
W'here  zeal  and  love  with  ardor  burn> 
There  may  thy  children  joyful  be. 

4  And  when  these  pleasant  scenes  are   past- 
Unto  thyself,  O  may  we  come, 

Where  vast  assemblies  meet  at  last, 
In  Zion,  our  eternal  home. 


HYMN  CXCIII.    L.  P.  M.      [H.  Ballof; 
The  Pilgrims. 

1  TT7  HY  all  this  speed, ye  Pilgrims,  say  ? 

\\     Why  travel  ye  that  thorny  way  ? 
What  comforts  in  it  can  ye  find  I 
Of  riches,  wealth  and  honor  fair, 
With  us  you  might  in  plenty  share, 
And  fill  with  joy  each  longing  mind. 

2  Why  will  you  waste  your  time  for  nought  I 
This  world  appears  not  worth  your  thought: 
A  moment  pause — turn  round  and  see — 
Here  nature's  gardens  green  and  fair, 
Wi^h  sweetest  odours  fill  the  air, 

And  pleasant  fruits  on  time's  fair  tree. 


HYMNS.  207 

.3  We  once  sought  happiness  with  you, 
Before  the  pilgrim's  path  we  knew, 
In  meekness  ail  the  pilgrims  say  5 
But  now  we  love  what  you  despise, 
And  hold  contemptuous  in  your  eyes  ; 
The  call  of  God  we  must  obey. 

4  Therefore,  farewell,  all  earthly  things, 
To  health  and  honor  that  have  wings  ; 
O,  welcome  life  and  endless  joy  I 
Our  path  is  plain,  our  fruits  are  sweet, 
Our  comforts  all  in  Jesus  meet  ; 
Comforts  complete,  without  alloy. 


HYMN  CXCIV.    L.  M. 

Man   made    in    the  Image  of  God  ;  that    fa 
created  in  Jesus  Christ. 

1  T7F7HEN  God  almighty,  wise  and  just, 

V  V     Had  form'd    ail   creatures    else   of 
dust ; 
In  his  own  image  made  he  man, 
Lord  of  the  rest,  on  wisdom's  plan. 

2  Man  in  God's  image  taking  rise, 
Was  made,  of  course,  in  Jesus  Christ  ; 
For  he,  of  nations  the  desire, 

The  image  is  of  God  our  Sire. 

3  Jesus,  the  Son  of  God  the  just, 
Of  ev'ry  creature  is  the  first  5 
Thou  art  my  Son,  said  Deity, 
This  day  h^ve  I  begotte.n  thee, 


£08  HYMNS, 

4  Him  the  first  born  as  head  of  al!, 
Mongst  many  brethren  we  ma^  call  ; 
He  is  our  head,  his  members  we. 
And  children  all  of  Deity. 

5  Man  being  made  in  Jesus  Christ* 
The  Resurrection,  way  and  life  ; 
In  him,  of  course,  to  all  are  giv'n 
Irnmertal  life  and  endless  heav'n. 


HYMN  CXCIY.     8s  &  7s.      [H.  Rallou. 

Self  Examination. 

1    II^HAT  is  this  within  me  burning? 
\  V      What  a  flame  is  this  I  feel  ? 
This  I  can't  avoid  by  tunning, 
Is't  a  pure  or  blinded  zeal  ? 
Lord,    I  would  myself  examine  ; 
Help  me  by  thy  light  divine  ; 
That  I  rightly  may  determine, 
May  thy  graces  in  me  shine. 


When  I  pray,  my  soul  extended, 
Sends  her  warm  desires  abroad, 
That  my  foes  may  be  befriended  ; 
Is  it  wrong  ?      O  tell  me,  Lord  I 
Where  in  all  thy  vast  creation 
Is  that  soul  I  do  not  love  ? 
Grant,  dear  Lord,  to  all  salvation, 
Or  my  error  disapprove. 

Still  the  ardent  fire  increases, 
When  thy  honors,  Lord,  I  see  ; 


HYMNS.  209 

May  thy  grace,  which  me  releases, 
Set  the  world  from  bondage  free. 
I  appeal  to  thee,  my  Savior, 
To  correct,  if  I  am  wrong ; 
Am  I  right  ?  O  then  I'll  never 
Cease  thy  praises  in  my  song. 


HYMN  CXCV.    S.  M,     [H.  Ballou, 

Fait ht  Hofie  and  Charity, 

1  "\JOW  faith  and  hope  abide, 
J^l    With  charity  divine  ; 

These  three,  to  us,  a  faithful  guide, 
With  heav'nly  lustre  shine. 

2  By  faith  in  God  we  stand, 
And  hold  the  promise  strong  ; 

Ho/ie,  ent'ring  on  the  promised  land, 
Begins  her  joyful  song. 

3  But  Charity  divine 
Inspires  the  soul  with  love  ; 

Plants  heav'nly  tempers  in  the  mind, 
And  anger  doth  remove. 

4  She  kindly  suffers  long, 
Nor  is  provok'd  with  ease  ; 

And  tho'  condemn'd  to  sutler  wrongr 
Yet,  still  she  strives  to  please. 

5  Forgiveness  she  displays 
To  all  her  foes  around  ; 

In  peace  pursues  her  golden  ways,, 
And  lets  her  love  abound. 

S  2 


210  HYMXS. 

6  Lord,  may  this  matchless  grace 
Abound  in  ev'ry  heart  ; 

Help  us  to  run  the  heav'nly  race, 
And  life  divine  impart. 


HYMNCXCVI.    C.  M. 

(l2)'iey  shall  lo^k  on  him  whom  they  have  pierc- 
ed, and  mourn.9* 

HEN  Jesus  to  the  earth  shall  come 
To  judge  the  quick  and  dead  1 
Those  will    be  chang'd,   there    leave   the 

tomb, 
Obsequious  to  their  head  ! 


w 


2  All  nations  of  the  spacious  earth, 
Shall,  at  his  coming,  wail  \ 

To  seethe  judge  whose  side  they've  pierc'd 
With  sin,  as  creatures  frail. 

3  When  Christ  in  course  shall  read  the  books, 
The  books  of  law  and  grace  ; 

How  different  then  will  be  the  looks, 
And  thoughts  of  Adam's  race  1 

4  The  sentence  from  the  book  of  law, 
Will  be  to  all  "Depart  1" 

And  on  their  guilty  spirits  draw 
Damnation's  keenest  smart  1 

5  When  from  his  mouth  with  smiling  face, 
They  hear  the  gospel's  voice — 

li  Your  sins  are  pardon'd  all  by    grace," 
How  will  they  all  rejoice  I 


Sil 


INDEX. 

PAGft. 

A 

Ail  nature  owns  her  God         *             -  5 

As  God  does  ev'ry  thing  decree     -  -     16 

As  God  on  earth  has  plac'd  man  kind  19 

As  is  the  greater  good    we  find          -  21 

Art  thou  my  father  ?  then  no  more  35 

Awake  the  song  that  gave  to  earth  43 

And  is  the  gospel  peace  and  love       -  139 

Arise  and  hail  the  happy  day         -  -     44 

All  hail,  thou  great  first  born  47 

As  all  in  Adam  die  we  find              -  61 

As  in  a  seed  do  hidden  lie         -          -  63 

As  all  men  once  in  Adam  fell         -  63 

Angels,  roll  the  rock  away  68 

And  J,  if  I  be  lifted  up             -             -  73 

All  men  by  nature,  more  or  less     -  -    86 

As  by  th'  offence  of  one,  we  all         -  88 

As  Jesus  in  his  body  bore            -  -    91 

Awake,  my  soul,  in  joyful  lays          -  100 

A  wretched  creature/Lord,  I've  been  103 

As  God  is  potent,  wise  and  just         -  109 

As  God,  the  author  of  our  race         -  142 

As  flesh  and  blood  inherit  not      -         -  154 

All  liars  shall  their   portion  have       -  16o~ 

As  show'rs  on  meadows  newly  mown  189 

B 

Before  the  Patr'arch  Abrah'm  was       -  70 

Blow  ye,  the  trumpet,  blow         -         -  8$ 

By  nature  men  are  apt  to  think       -  102 

Blest  are  the  eyes  that  see  the  sight  1 18 

Bold  is  the  man  that  dares  to  cuiso  153 

Behold  the  morning  sun        -  168 


212  INDEX. 

C  PA6B. 

Come,  Pharisee  and  hypocrite         -  20  L 

Come,  let  us  take  a  sharp  survey  197 

Come,  though  we  can  truly  sing        *  186 
Come,  holy  spirit,  heavenly  dove     -       -  177 

Come,  ath'ist,  own  the  world  was  made  7 

Come,  Hmitar'an,  having  faith           -  98 

Cease,  here  longer  to  detain  me       -  145 

Christ  Jesus  whom   the  Father  gave  173 

Could  I  of  all  perfection  boast         -  183 

D 

Deceiv'd  by  subtle  snares  of  hell        -  29 

Dear  Shepherd,  see  thy  flock  here  met  1 12 

Death,  thou  art  welcome  to  my  arms  148 

Death,  thou  destroyer  of  our  race      -  161 

Dear  brother,  though  this  very  day     -  155 

E 

Except  a  man  be  born  again        -        -  174 

F 

Father  of  mercies,  in  thy  word           -  37 

Father,  how  wide  thy  glories  shine       -  91 

Faith  is  the  brightest  evidence          -  138 

From  worship  now  thy  church  dismiss  205 

G 

God  is  a  spirit  just  and  pure  9 

God  forms  and  governs  by  decrees  1 1 

God  is  the  cause  of  ev'ry  thing         -  12 

God  from  election  free  and  pure         -  23 

God  of  my  life,  look  gently  down       -  GO 

God  said  to  Abrah'm,  not  in  mirth,        -  41 

Grateful  songs  and  anthems  bring     -  134 

Good  works  that  have  their  proper  place  166 

Go,  (saith  the  Lord,  to  Moses)  go      -  167 

Goodness  consists  in  doing  good    -       -  180 

Go,  search  the  fields  of  nature  through  188 

Great  God,  the  nations  of  the  earth    -  187 

God  hath  in  Zion  laid      -    -      -       -  205 


INDEX.  &13 

SAGE. 

H 
(How  boundless  are  Jehovah V,  works     -      10 
How  many  men  on  earth  there  be       -         17 
How  precious  is  the  book  divine    ~      ~      f? 
Hark'!  the  herald  angels  sing      -      -       4° 
Hark  !  the  glad  sound  !  the  Saviour  comes  49 
Hark  'tis  the  Saviour  of  mankind     -     -     67 
Hark,  'tis  our  heav'nly  Leader's  voice       157 
Hail,  day  of  sacred  rest         -         -        -     °9 
Hail  Infant  Time  !  when  this  huge  world  7» 
How  many  hold,  the  Deity    -     -     -     -     °l 

Hath  not  the  .potter  pow'r  and  skill     -       j** 
How  many  men  we  christians  call       -     105 
How  many  christians  think  and  say      -     136 
How  many  christians  of  the  day     -     -     *M 
Hew  many  persons  now  profess     -      •*.     US 
How  vain  the  joys  of  time  and  sense     -    159 
How  many  do  profess     ------     Lj* 

How  weak  are  mortals  and  how  vain     -  12ft 
Hail  thou  once  despised  Jesus     -       -       ,39 
How  can  a  heav'n  taught  soul  believe     165 
He  that  is  bom  of  God     -     -     -      -        17-5 

How  beautious  are  their  feet    -    -    -    190 

I 
Isr'el  in  ancient  days  -  -  -  3* 
I  came  with  no  design  —  -  -  48 
If  God  foreknew  that  man  would  fall  -  58 
I  am,  saith  Christ, the  way  -  -  -  62 
It  is  impossible  that  one  -  -  -  96 
If  Adam  was  a  type  of  Christ  -  *  -  106 
If  God  the  Author  be  of  sin  -  -  107 
In  keeping  God's  commands,  we  find  -  123 
Infinite  Pow'r  1  how  vast  the  thought  -  124 
Into  discussion  let  us  bring  -  -  -  -  140 
If  there  were  not  a  Christ  for  me  -  -  144 
Is  it  the  voice  of  God  wc  hear    -      -      150 


214  INDEX. 

tf  ....  PAGK- 

It  our  salvation  is  by  grace     -       -       -  15  1 

If  faith  in  Christ  the  son  of  God     -     -  15  3 

J 

Joy  to  the  world,  the  Lord  is  come       -  42 

Jesus,  as  we  have  understood     -     -       -  50 

Jesus,  thou  Day-spring  from  on  high     -  7  4 

Jesus,  thy  blood  and  righteousness       -  120 

Jesus  Christ  is  ris'n  to-day      -      -      -  161 

Jesus  Christ,  my  soul  believes     -       -  175 

Jesus  shall  reign  where'er  the  sun       -  185 

Jehovah   has  acertain  aim     -     -       *      -  193 

Jesus  we  bless  thy  Father's  name       -  184 

L 
Lord  what  was  man  when  made  at  first  -    32 

Lo,  angels  to  the  earth  descend    -        -  45 

Lo,  what  a  glorious  sight  appears    -  12 

Let  ev'ry  soul  awake         -         -           -  12 

M 

My  God  how  endless  is  thy  love         -  170 
Much  has  been  said  to  prove,  that  man  -  18 

Many  affrrm  mankind  to  be         -         -  39 

Mortals,  by  faith  this  very  day       -         -  202 

N 

Now  let  a  spacious  world  arise  28 

Now  let  us  praise  the  Lamb  of  God     -  65 

Now  to  the  Lord  a  noble  song            .    -  97 

Now  begin  the   heav'nly  theme       -  135 

Now  shall  our  tongues  with  rapture  tell  143 

No  power  have  mortals  to  conceive  158 

Now  faith  and    hope  abide             -  209 

Not  only  of  the  Jew         -          -          -  200 

O 

Oh  !  what  a  wretched  thing             *  87 

Oh  !  all  ye  hungry,  thirsty  souls         -  108 

OGod,  my  sun,  thy  blissful  rays     -         •  117 


INDEX.  215 

PAGE. 

O,  is  my  heart  of  marble  made         ~        204 

P 

Praise  ye  the  Lord,  y'  immortal  choir  36 
Proud  Roman  world  !  behold  the  morn        55 

R 
Rejoice,  ye  ransom'd  of  the  Lord        -      76 
Religion  pure  and  undefil'd  -  110 

Raise  your  triumphant  songs  *         192 

S 
Some  men  who  hold,  that  God's  decrees  14 
Stretch'd  on  the  cross  the  Saviour  dies  -  75 
See  the  proud  Pharisees  conspire  -  -  84> 
Since  Satan  is,  as  we  confess  -  -  -  -  89 
Since  in  the  present  day  -     -  130 

Since  all  the  scriptures  plainly  show  -  131 
Sons  of  Adam,  why  despair  -  -  -  -  154 
Sin  is  the  common  enemy      -      -     -     -     181 

T 
The  cause  of  all  can  have  no  cause  -  -  6 
This  rolling  earth  on  which  we  live  -  8 
The  moral  law  a  transcript  is,  -  -  -  25 
'Twas  by  an  order  from  the  Lord  -  -  14 
Thy  ways,  OLord,  with  wise  design  -  31 
'Tis  not  the  law  of  ten  commands  -  -  33 
'Twas  on  the   green  banks  of  Euphrates 

fine  stream  ---,---...51 
The  Son  of  God  on  purpose  came  -  -  56 
That  God  is  Father  of  us  all  -  -  -  -  57 
That  Adam's  body  did  not  die  -  -  -  59 
9Tis  finish'd  ;  so  the  Saviour  cried  -  -  66 
This  Universe,  to  say  the  most  -  -  -  78 
The  lofty  pillars  of  the  sky  -  -  -  -  80 
The  love  of  money  is  the  root  -  -  -  85 
The  only  cure  for  slavish  grief  -  -  -  95 
To  what  strange  cause  is  due  -  -  -  -  92 
To  him  who  brought  salvation  down     -    94 


216  INDEX. 

There  is  a  fountain  fill'd  with  blood  - 
Thankless  for  favors  from  on  high  -  - 
The  only  cause  to  which  we  trace  -  - 
That  our  first  parents  sinn'd  and  fell  -  - 
'Tis  not  of  him  who  weeps  and  prays  - 
This  ia  among  our  Lord's  commands  - 
This  view  of  God  have  christians  giv'n 
The  joyful,  happy  day  appears     -     -     - 

The  sting  of  death  is  sin 

The  man  enlighten'd  from  on  high    -  - 

W 
When  Abrah'm  on  Moriah's  mount      - 
Why  should  we  think  that  Adam  was 
Why  do  we  dread  to  die 
When  I  survey  the  holy  grave 
What  curious  notions  now  reside 
What  pleasure  can  friendship  impart 
Whilst  we  are  marching  through 
What  if  Jehovah  has  a  right 
We  in  the  sacred  volume  find 
What  blush  of  beauties  we  behold 
What  though  this  truth  we  all  confess 
Why  sinks  my  weak,  desponding  mind 
When  we  remember,  we  must  die 
Why  all  this  speed,  ye  pilgrims,  say 
When  Moses  got  on  Pisgahys  top 
When  men  offend  the  law,  they  know 
Why  do  we  murmur  and  repine 
With  joy  we  meditate  the  grace 
We  read,  that  God  is  love 
What  is  this  within  me  burning 
We  thank  thee.  Lord,  thou  ever  just, 
When  God  Almighty,  wise  and  just 

Y. 
Ye  sons  of  men  with  joy  record 
Ye^  the  Redeemer  ross 


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